[PATCH] mmc: dw_mmc: enable MMC_CAP_DONE_COMPLETE

From: Shawn Lin

Date: Tue Oct 13 2026 - 05:57:50 EST


All requests issued by dw_mmc are completed from dw_mci_work_func(),
which runs from the system_bh_wq workqueue. It is therefore preemptible
context and host->lock is dropped before the completion, see
mmc_request_done() in dw_mci_request_end().

The dw_mci_interrupt and the dw_mci_watchdog_fn never call mmc_request_done()
directly. So every request is completed from a sleepable context with no
spinlock held.

This is exactly the contract required by MMC_CAP_DONE_COMPLETE, which was
introduced for hosts that can complete requests within mmc_request_done()
without deferring to the core's complete_work.

Without the flag, the core records the finished request in
mq->complete_req and queues mq->complete_work, i.e. a second workqueue
dispatch plus an extra context switch per request. With the flag,
mmc_blk_mq_req_done() completes the request directly via
mmc_blk_mq_post_req() -> blk_mq_complete_request(), and a following
request completes the previous one inline from mmc_blk_rw_wait().

Measured on an RK3576 SD card (dw_mmc) with:

perf record -a -g -F 999 -- sleep 30
perf report --stdio -g graph,0.5,caller

fio: 4k randread, ioengine=libaio

Without the flag, the completion hot path is:

mmc_request_done -> mmc_blk_mq_req_done -> queue_work_on (~4.3%)
... -> mmc_blk_mq_complete_work (kworker/5:1H-mm, ~18.4%)
-> mmc_blk_mq_complete_prev_req -> mmc_blk_mq_post_req

with the flag the workqueue round trip disappears completely: there is no
queue_work_on and no mmc_blk_mq_complete_work in the profile anymore, and
the previous request is completed inline:

mmc_blk_mq_issue_rq -> mmc_blk_mq_post_req -> mmc_blk_mq_complete_rq
-> __blk_mq_end_request

This can remove a redundant workqueue dispatch and context switch per completed
request.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c
index ff0b25d..bec777b 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c
@@ -2945,6 +2945,8 @@ static int dw_mci_init_host_caps(struct dw_mci *host)
if (mmc->caps & MMC_CAP_SDIO_IRQ)
mmc->caps2 |= MMC_CAP2_SDIO_IRQ_NOTHREAD;

+ mmc->caps |= MMC_CAP_DONE_COMPLETE;
+
return 0;
}

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