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authorBarry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>2020-08-24 11:03:07 +1200
committerChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2020-09-01 09:19:28 +0200
commitb7176c261cdbced87bed9562577333150ed05b01 (patch)
tree97b2ca14fd7833dbb40cee18082b0b1a93157605 /kernel/dma/Kconfig
parentf75aef392f869018f78cfedf3c320a6b3fcfda6b (diff)
downloadlinux-b7176c261cdbced87bed9562577333150ed05b01.tar.bz2
dma-contiguous: provide the ability to reserve per-numa CMA
Right now, drivers like ARM SMMU are using dma_alloc_coherent() to get coherent DMA buffers to save their command queues and page tables. As there is only one default CMA in the whole system, SMMUs on nodes other than node0 will get remote memory. This leads to significant latency. This patch provides per-numa CMA so that drivers like SMMU can get local memory. Tests show localizing CMA can decrease dma_unmap latency much. For instance, before this patch, SMMU on node2 has to wait for more than 560ns for the completion of CMD_SYNC in an empty command queue; with this patch, it needs 240ns only. A positive side effect of this patch would be improving performance even further for those users who are worried about performance more than DMA security and use iommu.passthrough=1 to skip IOMMU. With local CMA, all drivers can get local coherent DMA buffers. Also, this patch changes the default CONFIG_CMA_AREAS to 19 in NUMA. As 1+CONFIG_CMA_AREAS should be quite enough for most servers on the market even they enable both hugetlb_cma and pernuma_cma. 2 numa nodes: 2(hugetlb) + 2(pernuma) + 1(default global cma) = 5 4 numa nodes: 4(hugetlb) + 4(pernuma) + 1(default global cma) = 9 8 numa nodes: 8(hugetlb) + 8(pernuma) + 1(default global cma) = 17 Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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diff --git a/kernel/dma/Kconfig b/kernel/dma/Kconfig
index 847a9d1fa634..0ddfb5510fe4 100644
--- a/kernel/dma/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/dma/Kconfig
@@ -118,6 +118,17 @@ config DMA_CMA
If unsure, say "n".
if DMA_CMA
+
+config DMA_PERNUMA_CMA
+ bool "Enable separate DMA Contiguous Memory Area for each NUMA Node"
+ default NUMA && ARM64
+ help
+ Enable this option to get pernuma CMA areas so that devices like
+ ARM64 SMMU can get local memory by DMA coherent APIs.
+
+ You can set the size of pernuma CMA by specifying "cma_pernuma=size"
+ on the kernel's command line.
+
comment "Default contiguous memory area size:"
config CMA_SIZE_MBYTES