[PATCH 0/3] PCI DMA pseudo-bypass for powernv
Russell Currey
ruscur at russell.cc
Fri Jun 29 17:34:34 AEST 2018
These patches implement a new set of DMA operations designed to allow
devices that cannot address bit 59 to use more than 32-bit DMA.
The previous implementation for PHB3 assumed contiguous memory, which
is no longer the case on POWER9 and possibly later. As a result, a new
approach was necessary, which is what this new implementation does.
These patches aren't perfect yet - most notably, there is no
implementation of unmap() - once a TCE is created it is never freed.
For the most part this isn't an issue, but could potentially be a
problem for a device that can't address many bits and maps *a lot* of
memory.
I have a much more complex implementation in the back that I will post
in future, but until that's ready and fully tested, I believe the
drastic performance improvement is worth getting this upstream sooner
rather than later.
Thanks to Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Alistair Popple and Timothy Pearson
for their help.
Russell Currey (3):
powerpc/powernv/pci: Track largest available TCE order per PHB
powerpc/powernv: DMA operations for discontiguous allocation
powerpc/powernv/pci: Track TCE tables in debugfs
arch/powerpc/include/asm/dma-mapping.h | 1 +
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-dma.c | 243 ++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c | 132 +++++++-----
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci.h | 10 +
5 files changed, 334 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-dma.c
--
2.17.1
More information about the Linuxppc-dev
mailing list