Re: ioatdma: add ioat_raid_enabled module parameter

[Jon Mason]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 03:14:07PM -0700, Jiang, Dave wrote:
> I'm ok with enabling this for people that just want to use DMA and not
> RAID. 

I might be crazy, but I'd be in favor of disabling the RAID offload by
default on non-Atom platforms.

Thanks,
Jon

> 
> Acked-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 00:05 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> > ioatdma: add ioat_raid_enabled module parameter
> > 
> > Commit f26df1a1 added a 64-byte alignment requirement for legacy
> > operations to work around a silicon errata when mixing legacy and
> > RAID descriptors.
> > Passing ioat_raid_enabled=0 now disables RAID offload entirely in
> > the ioatdma driver so that legacy operations (memcpy, etc.) can
> > work without alignment restrictions anymore.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c |    9 +++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Index: b/drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- a/drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c	2013-07-31 23:06:24.163810000 +0200
> > +++ b/drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c	2013-07-31 23:47:54.246719841 +0200
> > @@ -67,6 +67,11 @@
> >  #include "dma.h"
> >  #include "dma_v2.h"
> >  
> > +static int ioat_raid_enabled = 1;
> > +module_param(ioat_raid_enabled, int, 0444);
> > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(ioat_raid_enabled,
> > +		 "control support of RAID offload (default: 1)");
> > +
> >  /* ioat hardware assumes at least two sources for raid operations */
> >  #define src_cnt_to_sw(x) ((x) + 2)
> >  #define src_cnt_to_hw(x) ((x) - 2)
> > @@ -1775,7 +1780,7 @@ int ioat3_dma_probe(struct ioatdma_devic
> >  	dma->device_alloc_chan_resources = ioat2_alloc_chan_resources;
> >  	dma->device_free_chan_resources = ioat2_free_chan_resources;
> >  
> > -	if (is_xeon_cb32(pdev))
> > +	if (is_xeon_cb32(pdev) && ioat_raid_enabled)
> >  		dma->copy_align = 6;
> >  
> >  	dma_cap_set(DMA_INTERRUPT, dma->cap_mask);
> > @@ -1783,7 +1788,7 @@ int ioat3_dma_probe(struct ioatdma_devic
> >  
> >  	device->cap = readl(device->reg_base + IOAT_DMA_CAP_OFFSET);
> >  
> > -	if (is_bwd_noraid(pdev))
> > +	if (!ioat_raid_enabled || is_bwd_noraid(pdev))
> >  		device->cap &= ~(IOAT_CAP_XOR | IOAT_CAP_PQ | IOAT_CAP_RAID16SS);
> >  
> >  	/* dca is incompatible with raid operations */
> > 
> 
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