[PATCH v2] dmaengine: xgene-dma: Disable memcpy operation due to performance drop

[Rameshwar Sahu]

Hi Vinod,

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 10:08:32PM +0530, Rameshwar Sahu wrote:
>> Hi Vinod,
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 02:36:57PM +0530, Rameshwar Prasad Sahu wrote:
>> >> The DMA engine supports memory copy, RAID5 XOR, RAID6 PQ, and other
>> >> computations. But the bandwidth of the entire DMA engine is shared
>> >> among all channels. This patch re-configures operations availability
>> >> such that one can achieve maximum performance for XOR and PQ
>> >> computation by removing the memory offload operations.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Rameshwar Prasad Sahu <rsahu at apm.com>
>> >> ---
>> >>  drivers/dma/xgene-dma.c | 1 -
>> >>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/drivers/dma/xgene-dma.c b/drivers/dma/xgene-dma.c
>> >> index 8d57b1b..cd38022 100644
>> >> --- a/drivers/dma/xgene-dma.c
>> >> +++ b/drivers/dma/xgene-dma.c
>> >> @@ -1707,7 +1707,6 @@ static void xgene_dma_set_caps(struct xgene_dma_chan *chan,
>> >>       dma_cap_zero(dma_dev->cap_mask);
>> >>
>> >>       /* Set DMA device capability */
>> >> -     dma_cap_set(DMA_MEMCPY, dma_dev->cap_mask);
>> >>       dma_cap_set(DMA_SG, dma_dev->cap_mask);
>> >
>> > This will not work. Still clients can invoke memcpy operation. You need to
>> > remove the callback
>>
>> Got it, instead of removing the callback registration can we keep it
>> inside the condition like..
>>
>> if (dma_has_cap(DMA_MEMCPY, dma_dev->cap_mask))
>>             dma_dev->device_prep_dma_memcpy = xgene_dma_prep_memcpy;
>
> But the code is dead and will not be tested and hence not maintained. I do
> not see a reason to keep dead code in kernel

Got it, I will remove the memcpy offload support and will send another
patch for review.
>
> --
> ~Vinod