Re: [PATCH v2] dmaengine: xgene-dma: Disable memcpy operation due to performance drop

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Fri Oct 09 2015 - 12:12:24 EST


On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 02:36:57PM +0530, Rameshwar Prasad Sahu wrote:
> The DMA engine supports memory copy, RAID5 XOR, RAID6 PQ, and other
> computations. But the bandwidth of the entire DMA engine is shared
> among all channels. This patch re-configures operations availability
> such that one can achieve maximum performance for XOR and PQ
> computation by removing the memory offload operations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rameshwar Prasad Sahu <rsahu@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/dma/xgene-dma.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/xgene-dma.c b/drivers/dma/xgene-dma.c
> index 8d57b1b..cd38022 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/xgene-dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/xgene-dma.c
> @@ -1707,7 +1707,6 @@ static void xgene_dma_set_caps(struct xgene_dma_chan *chan,
> dma_cap_zero(dma_dev->cap_mask);
>
> /* Set DMA device capability */
> - dma_cap_set(DMA_MEMCPY, dma_dev->cap_mask);
> dma_cap_set(DMA_SG, dma_dev->cap_mask);

This will not work. Still clients can invoke memcpy operation. You need to
remove the callback

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~Vinod
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