linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/3] support per-numa CMA for ARM server

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Date:   Wed, 3 Jun 2020 14:42:28 +1200
From:   Barry Song <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>
To:     <hch@....de>, <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>, <robin.murphy@....com>,
        <catalin.marinas@....com>
CC:     <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linuxarm@...wei.com>,
        <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>, <john.garry@...wei.com>,
        <prime.zeng@...ilicon.com>, Barry Song <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] support per-numa CMA for ARM server

Right now, smmu is using dma_alloc_coherent() to get memory to save queues
and tables. Typically, on ARM64 server, there is a default CMA located at
node0, which could be far away from node2, node3 etc.
Saving queues and tables remotely will increase the latency of ARM SMMU
significantly. For example, when SMMU is at node2 and the default global
CMA is at node0, after sending a CMD_SYNC in an empty command queue, we
have to wait more than 550ns for the completion of the command CMD_SYNC.
However, if we save them locally, we only need to wait for 240ns.

with per-numa CMA, smmu will get memory from local numa node to save command
queues and page tables. that means dma_unmap latency will be shrunk much.

Meanwhile, when iommu.passthrough is on, device drivers which call dma_
alloc_coherent() will also get local memory and avoid the travel between
numa nodes.

Barry Song (3):
  dma-direct: provide the ability to reserve per-numa CMA
  arm64: mm: reserve hugetlb CMA after numa_init
  arm64: mm: reserve per-numa CMA after numa_init

 arch/arm64/mm/init.c           | 12 ++++++----
 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h |  4 ++++
 kernel/dma/Kconfig             | 10 ++++++++
 kernel/dma/contiguous.c        | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 4 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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