[PATCH] MMIO should have more priority then IO

From: Ajay Kaher
Date: Tue Jun 28 2022 - 12:54:13 EST


Port IO instructions (PIO) are less efficient than MMIO (memory
mapped I/O). They require twice as many PCI accesses and PIO
instructions are serializing. As a result, MMIO should be preferred
when possible over PIO.

Bare metal test result
1 million reads using raw_pci_read() took:
PIO: 0.433153 Sec.
MMIO: 0.268792 Sec.

Virtual Machine test result
1 hundred thousand reads using raw_pci_read() took:
PIO: 12.809 Sec.
MMIO: took 8.517 Sec.

Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher <akaher@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/pci/common.c | 8 ++++----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/common.c b/arch/x86/pci/common.c
index 3507f456f..0b3383d9c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/pci/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/pci/common.c
@@ -40,20 +40,20 @@ const struct pci_raw_ops *__read_mostly raw_pci_ext_ops;
int raw_pci_read(unsigned int domain, unsigned int bus, unsigned int devfn,
int reg, int len, u32 *val)
{
+ if (raw_pci_ext_ops)
+ return raw_pci_ext_ops->read(domain, bus, devfn, reg, len, val);
if (domain == 0 && reg < 256 && raw_pci_ops)
return raw_pci_ops->read(domain, bus, devfn, reg, len, val);
- if (raw_pci_ext_ops)
- return raw_pci_ext_ops->read(domain, bus, devfn, reg, len, val);
return -EINVAL;
}

int raw_pci_write(unsigned int domain, unsigned int bus, unsigned int devfn,
int reg, int len, u32 val)
{
+ if (raw_pci_ext_ops)
+ return raw_pci_ext_ops->write(domain, bus, devfn, reg, len, val);
if (domain == 0 && reg < 256 && raw_pci_ops)
return raw_pci_ops->write(domain, bus, devfn, reg, len, val);
- if (raw_pci_ext_ops)
- return raw_pci_ext_ops->write(domain, bus, devfn, reg, len, val);
return -EINVAL;
}

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