linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/arm
Thomas Petazzoni 9ff0bb5ba6 ARM: 8180/1: mm: implement no-highmem fast path in kmap_atomic_pfn()
Since CONFIG_HIGHMEM got enabled on ARMv5 Kirkwood, we have noticed a
very significant drop in networking performance. The test were
conducted on an OpenBlocks A7 board. Without this patch, the outgoing
performance measured with iperf are:

 - highmem OFF, TSO OFF   544 Mbit/s
 - highmem OFF, TSO ON	  942 Mbit/s
 - highmem ON,  TSO OFF   306 Mbit/s
 - highmem ON,  TSO ON    246 Mbit/s

On this Kirkwood platform, the L2 cache is a Feroceon cache, and with
this cache, all the range operations have to be done on virtual
addresses and not physical addresses. Therefore, whenever
CONFIG_HIGHMEM is enabled, the cache maintenance operations call
kmap_atomic_pfn() and kunmap_atomic().

However, kmap_atomic_pfn() does not implement the same fast path for
non-highmem pages as the one implemented in kmap_atomic(), and this is
one of the reason for the performance drop. While this patch does not
fully restore the performances, it clearly improves them a lot:

      	      	        without patch  with patch

 - highmem ON, TSO OFF   306 Mbit/s     387 Mbit/s
 - highmem ON, TSO ON    246 Mbit/s     434 Mbit/s

We're still far from the !CONFIG_HIGHMEM performances, but it does
improve a bit the situation.

Thanks a lot to Ezequiel Garcia and Gregory Clement for all the
testing work around this topic.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2014-10-29 17:22:07 +00:00
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boot Merge tag 'qcom-dt-for-3.18-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/linux-qcom into fixes 2014-10-19 13:39:08 -07:00
common This is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v3.18 development 2014-10-09 14:58:15 -04:00
configs Samsung defconfig, actually exynos_defconig updates for v3.18 2014-10-14 23:32:31 -07:00
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mm ARM: 8180/1: mm: implement no-highmem fast path in kmap_atomic_pfn() 2014-10-29 17:22:07 +00:00
net net: bpf: arm: make hole-faulting more robust 2014-09-23 12:40:22 -04:00
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