[PATCH 1/4] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Use command queue batching helpers to improve performance

Leizhen (ThunderTown) thunder.leizhen at huawei.com
Mon Aug 16 01:41:47 PDT 2021



On 2021/8/16 16:21, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 03:47:58PM +0800, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2021/8/16 15:24, John Garry wrote:
>>>> In addition, I find that function arm_smmu_cmdq_build_cmd() can also be optimized
>>>> slightly, three useless instructions can be reduced.
>>>
>>> I think that you could optimise further by pre-building commonly used commands.
>>>
>>> For example, CMD_SYNC without MSI polling is always the same. And then only different in 1 field for MSI polling.
>>>
>>> But you need to check if the performance gain is worth the change.
>>
>> Good advice. I can give it a try.
> 
> Please send it as a new patch on top. I've queued the old one and sent
> it to Joerg. Since this is just further cleanup, it can be done separately.

OK, I'll post a separate patch later.

> 
> Will
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