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Commit 9e02977b authored by Chao Gao's avatar Chao Gao Committed by Christoph Hellwig
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dma-direct: avoid redundant memory sync for swiotlb



When we looked into FIO performance with swiotlb enabled in VM, we found
swiotlb_bounce() is always called one more time than expected for each DMA
read request.

It turns out that the bounce buffer is copied to original DMA buffer twice
after the completion of a DMA request (one is done by in
dma_direct_sync_single_for_cpu(), the other by swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single()).
But the content in bounce buffer actually doesn't change between the two
rounds of copy. So, one round of copy is redundant.

Pass DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC flag to swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single() to
skip the memory copy in it.

This fix increases FIO 64KB sequential read throughput in a guest with
swiotlb=force by 5.6%.

Fixes: 55897af6 ("dma-direct: merge swiotlb_dma_ops into the dma_direct code")
Reported-by: default avatarWang Zhaoyang1 <zhaoyang1.wang@intel.com>
Reported-by: default avatarGao Liang <liang.gao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
parent 4fe87e81
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