Re: [PATCH] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: add nr_ats_masters to avoid unnecessary operations

From: Leizhen (ThunderTown)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2019 - 20:41:53 EST




On 2019/8/14 1:10, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 11:42:17AM +0100, John Garry wrote:
>> On 01/08/2019 13:20, Zhen Lei wrote:
>>> When (smmu_domain->smmu->features & ARM_SMMU_FEAT_ATS) is true, even if a
>>> smmu domain does not contain any ats master, the operations of
>>> arm_smmu_atc_inv_to_cmd() and lock protection in arm_smmu_atc_inv_domain()
>>> are always executed. This will impact performance, especially in
>>> multi-core and stress scenarios. For my FIO test scenario, about 8%
>>> performance reduced.
>>>
>>> In fact, we can use a atomic member to record how many ats masters the
>>> smmu contains. And check that without traverse the list and check all
>>> masters one by one in the lock protection.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Will, Robin, Jean-Philippe,
>>
>> Can you kindly check this issue? We have seen a signifigant performance
>> regression here.
>
> Sorry, John: Robin and Jean-Philippe are off at the moment and I've been
> swamped dealing with the arm64 queue. I'll try to get to this tomorrow.

Hi, all:
I found my patch have some mistake, see below. I'm sorry I didn't see this coupling.
I'm preparing v2.

> @@ -1915,10 +1921,10 @@ static void arm_smmu_detach_dev(struct arm_smmu_master *master)
> list_del(&master->domain_head);
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&smmu_domain->devices_lock, flags);
>
> - master->domain = NULL;
> arm_smmu_install_ste_for_dev(master);

"master->domain = NULL" is needed in arm_smmu_install_ste_for_dev().

>
> arm_smmu_disable_ats(master);
> + master->domain = NULL;
> }

>
> Will
>
> .
>