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	mpc8548 does not make use of DMA when doing memory copy? by hank peng :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Kernel version is 2.6.30 and I have enabled fsl DMA engine during configuring kernel. After system booted, I have seen only 38 DMA interrupts, and no increase later when I am doing data transfer through network. So I wonder if mpc8548 had made use of DMA engine when doing memcpy, or maybe if there are other things I haven't noticed? -- The simplest is not all best but the best is surely the simplest! _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@... https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
	Re: mpc8548 does not make use of DMA when doing memory copy? by Kumar Gala-3 :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message On Nov 2, 2009, at 9:40 AM, hank peng wrote: > Kernel version is 2.6.30 and I have enabled fsl DMA engine during > configuring kernel. After system booted, I have seen only 38 DMA > interrupts, and no increase later when I am doing data transfer > through network. > So I wonder if mpc8548 had made use of DMA engine when doing memcpy, > or maybe if there are other things I haven't noticed? The dma engine code is not normally used for normal memcpy's in the kernel. There are explicit call sites that have async behavior that should use it (like the networking code). - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@... https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
	Re: mpc8548 does not make use of DMA when doing memory copy? by hank peng :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message 2009/11/3 Kumar Gala <galak@...>: > > On Nov 2, 2009, at 9:40 AM, hank peng wrote: > >> Kernel version is 2.6.30 and I have enabled fsl DMA engine during >> configuring kernel. After system booted, I have seen only 38 DMA >> interrupts, and no increase later when I am doing data transfer >> through network. >> So I wonder if mpc8548 had made use of DMA engine when doing memcpy, >> or maybe if there are other things I haven't noticed? > > The dma engine code is not normally used for normal memcpy's in the kernel. > There are explicit call sites that have async behavior that should use it > (like the networking code). > I remember normal memory copy can also be done (chosen by user) by DMA engine on IOP80331(Intel embedded cpu, xscale arch), so why ppc platform didn't make use of DMA doing memory copy, I think it can increase performance, please correct me if I am wrong! > - k > -- The simplest is not all best but the best is surely the simplest! _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@... https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
	Re: mpc8548 does not make use of DMA when doing memory copy? by Micha Nelissen :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message hank peng wrote: > I remember normal memory copy can also be done (chosen by user) by DMA > engine on IOP80331(Intel embedded cpu, xscale arch), so why ppc > platform didn't make use of DMA doing memory copy, I think it can > increase performance, please correct me if I am wrong! AFAIK the DMA engine has only an asynchronous mode (not very smart IMHO). This means you always have the overhead of context switch + interrupt + context switch, so the transfer has to be quite large for this to pay off. Micha _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@... https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
	Re: mpc8548 does not make use of DMA when doing memory copy? by hank peng :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message 2009/11/3 Micha Nelissen <micha@...>: > hank peng wrote: >> >> I remember normal memory copy can also be done (chosen by user) by DMA >> engine on IOP80331(Intel embedded cpu, xscale arch), so why ppc >> platform didn't make use of DMA doing memory copy, I think it can >> increase performance, please correct me if I am wrong! > > AFAIK the DMA engine has only an asynchronous mode (not very smart IMHO). > This means you always have the overhead of context switch + interrupt + > context switch, so the transfer has to be quite large for this to pay off. > but if the amount of data I want to copy is big enough? can we benefit from using DMA in such case? > Micha > -- The simplest is not all best but the best is surely the simplest! _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@... https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
	Re: mpc8548 does not make use of DMA when doing memory copy? by Kumar Gala-3 :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:38 AM, hank peng wrote: > 2009/11/3 Micha Nelissen <micha@...>: >> hank peng wrote: >>> >>> I remember normal memory copy can also be done (chosen by user) by >>> DMA >>> engine on IOP80331(Intel embedded cpu, xscale arch), so why ppc >>> platform didn't make use of DMA doing memory copy, I think it can >>> increase performance, please correct me if I am wrong! >> >> AFAIK the DMA engine has only an asynchronous mode (not very smart >> IMHO). >> This means you always have the overhead of context switch + >> interrupt + >> context switch, so the transfer has to be quite large for this to >> pay off. >> > but if the amount of data I want to copy is big enough? can we benefit > from using DMA in such case? Correct, we just don't make normal memcpy do this. There isn't anything stopping specific call from using the async DMA API to get memcpy behavior. - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@... https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev