[PATCH] iommu/dma: Zero pages manually in a length of scatterlist

From: Nicolin Chen
Date: Thu Nov 01 2018 - 17:35:13 EST


The __GFP_ZERO will be passed down to the generic page allocation
routine which zeros everything page by page. This is safe to be a
generic way but not efficient for iommu allocation that organizes
contiguous pages using scatterlist.

So this changes drops __GFP_ZERO from the flag, and adds a manual
memset after page/sg allocations, using the length of scatterlist.

My test result of a 2.5MB size allocation shows iommu_dma_alloc()
takes 46% less time, reduced from averagely 925 usec to 500 usec.

Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
index d1b04753b204..e48d995e65c5 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
@@ -551,10 +551,13 @@ struct page **iommu_dma_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp,
struct iommu_domain *domain = iommu_get_dma_domain(dev);
struct iommu_dma_cookie *cookie = domain->iova_cookie;
struct iova_domain *iovad = &cookie->iovad;
+ struct scatterlist *s;
struct page **pages;
struct sg_table sgt;
dma_addr_t iova;
unsigned int count, min_size, alloc_sizes = domain->pgsize_bitmap;
+ bool gfp_zero = false;
+ int i;

*handle = IOMMU_MAPPING_ERROR;

@@ -568,6 +571,15 @@ struct page **iommu_dma_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp,
if (attrs & DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_SINGLE_PAGES)
alloc_sizes = min_size;

+ /*
+ * The generic zeroing in a length of one page size is slow,
+ * so do it manually in a length of scatterlist size instead
+ */
+ if (gfp & __GFP_ZERO) {
+ gfp &= ~__GFP_ZERO;
+ gfp_zero = true;
+ }
+
count = PAGE_ALIGN(size) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
pages = __iommu_dma_alloc_pages(count, alloc_sizes >> PAGE_SHIFT, gfp);
if (!pages)
@@ -581,6 +593,12 @@ struct page **iommu_dma_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp,
if (sg_alloc_table_from_pages(&sgt, pages, count, 0, size, GFP_KERNEL))
goto out_free_iova;

+ if (gfp_zero) {
+ /* Now zero all the pages in the scatterlist */
+ for_each_sg(sgt.sgl, s, sgt.orig_nents, i)
+ memset(sg_virt(s), 0, s->length);
+ }
+
if (!(prot & IOMMU_CACHE)) {
struct sg_mapping_iter miter;
/*
--
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