Re: [RFC PATCH] mmc: meson-mx-sdhc: add DMA bounce buffer support

[Martin Blumenstingl]

Hi,

On Sun, Nov 1, 2026 at 9:55 AM HELPMEEADICE <yuanzhenpeng210@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> Thank you again for your feedback!
>
> I've completed the comparison between the original driver,
> MMC_CAP2_MERGE_CAPABLE, and the 128 KiB bounce buffer implementation
> on my Xunlei OneCloud (Amlogic S805).
>
> The results show that MMC_CAP2_MERGE_CAPABLE alone does not improve
> performance on this platform.
>
> Runtime instrumentation confirmed that:
>
> - dma_get_merge_boundary() returns 0.
> - host->can_dma_map_merge remains 0.
I see, so that will prevent it from doing anything.

> - The block queue's max_segments remains 1.
> - The merge-only variant behaves essentially the same as the original driver.
>
> Here are the sequential read results (MiB/s, mean of 5 runs):
>
>                  Baseline   Merge-only   Bounce
>     4 KiB          11.81       12.20      13.01
>    64 KiB          12.88       12.80      57.52
>   128 KiB          12.97       12.80      67.68
>     1 MiB          13.11       13.05      69.43
>
> The bounce buffer improves sequential read throughput by up to 5.3x
> and sequential write throughput by up to 2.1x.
Let's wait for Ulf's feedback in the next few days if it's something
that should go into MMC core (either by default or opt-in) or if we
should keep it driver specific.


Best regards,
Martin