NTB: Default to CPU memcpy for performance
Disable DMA usage by default, since the CPU provides much better performance with write combining. Provide a module parameter to enable DMA usage when offloading the memcpy is preferred. Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Allen Hubbe <Allen.Hubbe@emc.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
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@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ static unsigned int copy_bytes = 1024;
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module_param(copy_bytes, uint, 0644);
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MODULE_PARM_DESC(copy_bytes, "Threshold under which NTB will use the CPU to copy instead of DMA");
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static bool use_dma;
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module_param(use_dma, bool, 0644);
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MODULE_PARM_DESC(use_dma, "Use DMA engine to perform large data copy");
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static struct dentry *nt_debugfs_dir;
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struct ntb_queue_entry {
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@ -1589,10 +1593,15 @@ ntb_transport_create_queue(void *data, struct device *client_dev,
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dma_cap_zero(dma_mask);
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dma_cap_set(DMA_MEMCPY, dma_mask);
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qp->dma_chan = dma_request_channel(dma_mask, ntb_dma_filter_fn,
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(void *)(unsigned long)node);
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if (!qp->dma_chan)
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dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Unable to allocate DMA channel, using CPU instead\n");
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if (use_dma) {
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qp->dma_chan = dma_request_channel(dma_mask, ntb_dma_filter_fn,
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(void *)(unsigned long)node);
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if (!qp->dma_chan)
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dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Unable to allocate DMA channel\n");
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} else {
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qp->dma_chan = NULL;
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}
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dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "Using %s memcpy\n", qp->dma_chan ? "DMA" : "CPU");
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for (i = 0; i < NTB_QP_DEF_NUM_ENTRIES; i++) {
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entry = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*entry), GFP_ATOMIC, node);
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