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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] TTM DMA pool v2.2 or [GIT PULL] (stable/ttm.dma_pool

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] TTM DMA pool v2.2 or [GIT PULL] (stable/ttm.dma_pool.v2.3) for 3.3
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 14:47:21 -0400
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I am not sure what the right way to patches in Dave tree is for Linux 3.3, so I
am posting the patches and also providing the means of doing a git pull.

The git tree is:

git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git 
stable/ttm.dma_pool.v2.3


Oh, and Thomas, should I add your Ack on the patches as well? I think it was an 
implied
Ack, but I do not want to presume. If so, I can respin this with your Ack 
shortly.

and it has since v2.1: https://lwn.net/Articles/463815/
 - Fixed bugs/mistakes pointed out by Jerome
 - Added Review-by: Jereme Glisse
Since v2.0: [not posted]
 - Redid the registration/override to be tightly integrated with the
   'struct ttm_backend_func' per Thomas's suggestion.
Since v1.9: [not posted]
 - Performance improvements - it was doing O(n^2) instead of O(n) on certain
   workloads.
Since v1.8: [lwn.net/Articles/458724/]
 - Removed swiotlb_enabled and used swiotlb_nr_tbl.
 - Added callback for changing cache types.
Since v1.7: [https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/30/460]
 - Fixed checking the DMA address in radeon/nouveau code.
Since v1: [http://lwn.net/Articles/456246/]
 - Ran it through the gauntlet of SubmitChecklist and fixed issues
 - Made radeon/nouveau driver set coherent_dma (which is required for dmapool)

[.. and this is what I said in v1 post]:

Way back in January this patchset:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2011-January/006905.html
was merged in, but pieces of it had to be reverted b/c they did not
work properly under PowerPC, ARM, and when swapping out pages to disk.

After a bit of discussion on the mailing list
http://marc.info/?i=4D769726.2030307@xxxxxxxxxxxx I started working on it, but
got waylaid by other things .. and finally I am able to post the RFC patches.

There was a lot of discussion about it and I am not sure if I captured
everybody's thoughts - if I did not - that is _not_ intentional - it has just
been quite some time..

Anyhow .. the patches explore what the "lib/dmapool.c" does - which is to have a
DMA pool that the device has associated with. I kind of married that code
along with drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c to create a TTM DMA pool code.
The end result is DMA pool with extra features: can do write-combine, uncached,
writeback (and tracks them and sets back to WB when freed); tracks "cached"
pages that don't really need to be returned to a pool; and hooks up to
the shrinker code so that the pools can be shrunk.

If you guys think this set of patches make sense  - my future plans were
 1) Get this in large crowd of testing .. and if it works for a kernel release
 2) to move a bulk of this in the lib/dmapool.c (I spoke with Matthew Wilcox
    about it and he is OK as long as I don't introduce performance regressions).

In regards to testing, I've been running them non-stop for the last two months.
(and found some issues which I've fixed up) - and been quite happy with how
they work.

Michel (thanks!) took a spin of the patches on his PowerPC and they did not
cause any regressions (wheew).

The patches are also located in a git tree:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git 
stable/ttm.dma_pool.v2.3

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (11):
      swiotlb: Expose swiotlb_nr_tlb function to modules
      nouveau/radeon: Set coherent DMA mask
      ttm/radeon/nouveau: Check the DMA address from TTM against known value.
      ttm: Wrap ttm_[put|get]_pages and extract GFP_* and caching states from 
'struct ttm_tt'
      ttm: Get rid of temporary scaffolding
      ttm/driver: Expand ttm_backend_func to include two overrides for TTM page 
pool.
      ttm: Do not set the ttm->be to NULL before calling the TTM page pool to 
free pages.
      ttm: Provide DMA aware TTM page pool code.
      ttm: Add 'no_dma' parameter to turn the TTM DMA pool off during runtime.
      nouveau/ttm/dma: Enable the TTM DMA pool if device can only do 32-bit DMA.
      radeon/ttm/dma: Enable the TTM DMA pool if the device can only do 32-bit.

 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_debugfs.c |    1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_mem.c     |    5 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sgdma.c   |    8 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c    |    6 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_gart.c      |    4 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_ttm.c       |   19 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/Makefile              |    3 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_memory.c          |    5 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c      |  108 ++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc_dma.c  | 1409 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.c              |   21 +-
 drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c                 |    2 +-
 include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_driver.h           |   31 +
 include/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.h          |   53 +-
 include/linux/swiotlb.h                   |    2 +-
 lib/swiotlb.c                             |    5 +-
 16 files changed, 1600 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)

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