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Message-ID: <20070703070312.GA19924@kroah.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 00:03:12 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
Cc: linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH 3/4] usb: allocated usb releated dma
buffer with?kmalloc_node
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 08:23:07AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 3. Juli 2007 schrieb Greg KH:
> > On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 10:33:12PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > > On 7/2/07, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 03:36:37PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > > > > [PATCH 3/4] usb: allocated usb releated dma buffer with kmalloc_node
> > > > >
> > > > > For amd64 based two way system. USB always on node0. but dma buffer for
> > > > urb
> > > > > allocated via kmalloc always get ram on node1. So change to kmalloc_node
> > > > to
> > > > > get dma_buffer on corresponding node
> > > >
> > > > Are all of these changes really necessary? You are doing this for some
> > > > allocations that take a _long_ time when sending to the device due to
> > > > the speed of the device.
> > > >
> > > > I could possibly see this making a difference on some drivers, but for
> > > > the core, and for the basic USB structures, I can't imagine it is really
> > > > worth it.
> > > >
> > > > Or do you have numbers showing the differences here?
> > > >
> > > > Patch included fully below for the benifit of the usb list, which you
> > > > should have cc:ed...
> > >
> > > dma buffer could be allocated via alloc_pages_coherent. or
> > > kmalloc/dma_map_single.
> > > alloc_pages_coherent get the dma_buffer on corresponding node.
> > > but kmalloc/dma_map_single always get dma_buffer on last node. or say
> > > device is on HT chain node0, it will get dma buffer on node 7 of 8
> > > socket system.
> > > also on two way system with 4G+4G RAM conf. device on node 0 will get
> > > dma_buffer above 4G, and if the dma_mask is less 32bit, will need
> > > extra iommu mapping.
> > > In my mcp55+io55 system, it show dma_map_single is keepping called by
> > > usb input: keyboard/mouse (8/0x40 bytes), and forcedeth. (0x670bytes)
> >
> > Ok, so two drivers might need this, but not the whole usb core, right?
>
> If those two drivers need the extended allocator, why not use it where
> it is beneficial, even if the benefit is small?
What is the benefit? Speed isn't an issue here, so what is?
thanks,
greg k-h
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