Re: [patch 03/12] USB: serial: keyspan_pda: Consolidate room query

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2020-10-14 12:34:25 [-0400], Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 06:27:14PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > On 2020-10-14 12:14:33 [-0400], Alan Stern wrote:
> > > Instead, consider using the new usb_control_msg_recv() API.  But it 
> > > might be better to allocate the buffer once and for all.
> > 
> > This will still allocate and free buffer on each invocation. What about
> 
> Yes.  That's why I suggesting doing a single buffer allocation at the 
> start and using it for each I/O transfer.  (But I'm not familiar with 
> this code, and I don't know if there might be multiple transfers going 
> on concurrently.)

There are no concurrent transfer. There is a bit used as a lock. The
first one does the transfer, the other wait.

> > moving the query_buf to the begin of the struct / align it?
> 
> No, thank won't work either.  The key to the issue is that while some 
> memory is mapped for DMA, the CPU must not touch it or anything else in 
> the same cache line.  If a field is a member of a data structure, the 
> CPU might very well access a neighboring member while this one is 
> mapped, thereby messing up the cache line.

that is unfortunately true. Let me do the single buffer.

> Alan Stern

Sebastian