[PATCH v2 00/14] crypto: omap-aes: Improve DMA, add PIO mode and support for AM437x

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Wed Aug 21 07:50:52 EDT 2013


On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 09:42:21PM -0500, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> Following patch series rewrites the DMA code to be cleaner and faster. Earlier,
> only a single SG was used for DMA purpose, and the SG-list passed from the
> crypto layer was being copied and DMA'd one entry at a time. This turns out to
> be quite inefficient and lot of code, we replace it with much simpler approach
> that directly passes the SG-list from crypto to the DMA layers for cases where
> possible. For all cases where such a direct passing of SG list is not possible,
> we create a new SG-list and do the copying. This is still better than before, as
> we create an SG list as big as needed and not just 1-element list.
> 
> We also add PIO mode support to the driver, and switch to it whenever the DMA
> channel allocation is not available. This also has shown to give good performance
> for small blocks as shown below.
> 
> Tests have been performed on AM335x, OMAP4 and AM437x SoCs.
> 
> Below is a sample run on AM335x SoC (beaglebone board), showing
> performance improvement (20% for 8K blocks):

All applied.  Thanks!
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