media: uvcvideo: Use dma_alloc_noncontiguous API

On architectures where there is no coherent caching such as ARM use the
dma_alloc_noncontiguous API and handle manually the cache flushing using
dma_sync_sgtable().

If the architechture has coherent cache, the API falls back to
alloc_dma_pages, so we can remove the coherent caching code-path from the
driver, making it simpler.

With this patch on the affected architectures we can measure up to 20x
performance improvement in uvc_video_copy_data_work().

Eg: aarch64 with an external usb camera

NON_CONTIGUOUS
frames:  999
packets: 999
empty:   0 (0 %)
errors:  0
invalid: 0
pts: 0 early, 0 initial, 999 ok
scr: 0 count ok, 0 diff ok
sof: 2048 <= sof <= 0, freq 0.000 kHz
bytes 67034480 : duration 33303
FPS: 29.99
URB: 523446/4993 uS/qty: 104.836 avg 132.532 std 13.230 min 831.094 max (uS)
header: 76564/4993 uS/qty: 15.334 avg 15.229 std 3.438 min 186.875 max (uS)
latency: 468945/4992 uS/qty: 93.939 avg 132.577 std 9.531 min 824.010 max (uS)
decode: 54161/4993 uS/qty: 10.847 avg 6.313 std 1.614 min 111.458 max (uS)
raw decode speed: 9.931 Gbits/s
raw URB handling speed: 1.025 Gbits/s
throughput: 16.102 Mbits/s
URB decode CPU usage 0.162600 %

COHERENT
frames:  999
packets: 999
empty:   0 (0 %)
errors:  0
invalid: 0
pts: 0 early, 0 initial, 999 ok
scr: 0 count ok, 0 diff ok
sof: 2048 <= sof <= 0, freq 0.000 kHz
bytes 54683536 : duration 33302
FPS: 29.99
URB: 1478135/4000 uS/qty: 369.533 avg 390.357 std 22.968 min 3337.865 max (uS)
header: 79761/4000 uS/qty: 19.940 avg 18.495 std 1.875 min 336.719 max (uS)
latency: 281077/4000 uS/qty: 70.269 avg 83.102 std 5.104 min 735.000 max (uS)
decode: 1197057/4000 uS/qty: 299.264 avg 318.080 std 1.615 min 2806.667 max (uS)
raw decode speed: 365.470 Mbits/s
raw URB handling speed: 295.986 Mbits/s
throughput: 13.136 Mbits/s
URB decode CPU usage 3.594500 %

In non-affected architectures we see no significant impact.

Eg: x86 with an external usb camera

NON_CONTIGUOUS
frames:  999
packets: 999
empty:   0 (0 %)
errors:  0
invalid: 0
pts: 0 early, 0 initial, 999 ok
scr: 0 count ok, 0 diff ok
sof: 2048 <= sof <= 0, freq 0.000 kHz
bytes 70179056 : duration 33301
FPS: 29.99
URB: 288901/4897 uS/qty: 58.995 avg 26.022 std 4.319 min 253.853 max (uS)
header: 54792/4897 uS/qty: 11.189 avg 6.218 std 0.620 min 61.750 max (uS)
latency: 236602/4897 uS/qty: 48.315 avg 24.244 std 1.764 min 240.924 max (uS)
decode: 52298/4897 uS/qty: 10.679 avg 8.299 std 1.638 min 108.861 max (uS)
raw decode speed: 10.796 Gbits/s
raw URB handling speed: 1.949 Gbits/s
throughput: 16.859 Mbits/s
URB decode CPU usage 0.157000 %

COHERENT
frames:  999
packets: 999
empty:   0 (0 %)
errors:  0
invalid: 0
pts: 0 early, 0 initial, 999 ok
scr: 0 count ok, 0 diff ok
sof: 2048 <= sof <= 0, freq 0.000 kHz
bytes 71818320 : duration 33301
FPS: 29.99
URB: 321021/5000 uS/qty: 64.204 avg 23.001 std 10.430 min 268.837 max (uS)
header: 54308/5000 uS/qty: 10.861 avg 5.104 std 0.778 min 54.736 max (uS)
latency: 268799/5000 uS/qty: 53.759 avg 21.827 std 6.095 min 255.153 max (uS)
decode: 52222/5000 uS/qty: 10.444 avg 7.137 std 1.874 min 71.103 max (uS)
raw decode speed: 11.048 Gbits/s
raw URB handling speed: 1.789 Gbits/s
throughput: 17.253 Mbits/s
URB decode CPU usage 0.156800 %

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
index 97df5ecd66c9..cce5e38133cd 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
@@ -219,6 +219,7 @@
  */
 
 struct gpio_desc;
+struct sg_table;
 struct uvc_device;
 
 /* TODO: Put the most frequently accessed fields at the beginning of
@@ -545,7 +546,8 @@ struct uvc_copy_op {
  * @urb: the URB described by this context structure
  * @stream: UVC streaming context
  * @buffer: memory storage for the URB
- * @dma: DMA coherent addressing for the urb_buffer
+ * @dma: Allocated DMA handle
+ * @sgt: sgt_table with the urb locations in memory
  * @async_operations: counter to indicate the number of copy operations
  * @copy_operations: work descriptors for asynchronous copy operations
  * @work: work queue entry for asynchronous decode
@@ -556,6 +558,7 @@ struct uvc_urb {
 
 	char *buffer;
 	dma_addr_t dma;
+	struct sg_table *sgt;
 
 	unsigned int async_operations;
 	struct uvc_copy_op copy_operations[UVC_MAX_PACKETS];