Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] page_pool: optimize the cpu sync operation when DMA mapping

[Yunsheng Lin]

On 2021/8/23 20:42, Ilias Apalodimas wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 11:56:48AM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
>> On 2021/8/20 17:39, Ilias Apalodimas wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 02:56:51PM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:

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>>
>> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/kernel/dma/direct.h#L104
>>
>> The one thing I am not sure about is that the pool->p.offset
>> and pool->p.max_len are used to decide the sync range before this
>> patch, while the sync range is the same as the map range when doing
>> the sync in dma_map_page_attrs().
> 
> I am not sure I am following here. We always sync the entire range as well
> in the current code as the mapping function is called with max_len.
> 
>>
>> I assumed the above is not a issue? only sync more than we need?
>> and it won't hurt the performance?
> 
> We can sync more than we need, but if it's a non-coherent architecture,
> there's a performance penalty. 

Since I do not have any performance data to prove if there is a
performance penalty for non-coherent architecture, I will drop it:)

> 
> Regards
> /Ilias
>>