2012-08-06 10:36:31

by Qiang Liu

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Subject: [PATCH v6 0/8] Raid: enable talitos xor offload for improving performance

Hi all,

The following 8 patches enabling fsl-dma and talitos offload raid
operations for improving raid performance and balancing CPU load.

These patches include talitos, fsl-dma and carma module (caram uses
some features of fsl-dma).

Write performance will be improved by 25-30% tested by iozone.
Write performance is improved about 2% after using spin_lock_bh replace
spin_lock_irqsave.
CPU load will be reduced by 8%.

Changes in v6:
- swap the order of original patch 3/6 and 4/6;
- merge Ira's patch to reduce the size of original patch;
- merge Ira's patch of carma in 8/8;
- update documents and descriptions according to Ira's advice;

Changes in v5:
- add detail description in patch 3/6 about the process of completed
descriptor, the process is in align with fsl-dma Reference Manual,
illustrate the potential risk and how to reproduce it;
- drop the patch 7/7 in v4 according to Timur's comments;

Changes in v4:
- fix an error in talitos when dest addr is same with src addr, dest
should be freed only one time if src is same with dest addr;
- correct coding style in fsl-dma according to Ira's comments;
- fix a race condition in fsl-dma fsl_tx_status(), remove the interface
which is used to free descriptors in queue ld_completed, this interface
has been included in fsldma_cleanup_descriptor(), in v3, there is one
place missed spin_lock protect;
- split the original patch 3/4 up to 2 patches 3/7 and 4/7 according to
Li Yang's comments;
- fix a warning of unitialized cookie;
- add memory copy self test in fsl-dma;
- add more detail description about use spin_lock_bh() to instead of
spin_lock_irqsave() according to Timur's comments.

Changes in v3:
- change release process of fsl-dma descriptor for resolve the
potential race condition;
- add test result when use spin_lock_bh replace spin_lock_irqsave;
- modify the benchmark results according to the latest patch.

Changes in v2:
- rebase onto cryptodev tree;
- split the patch 3/4 up to 3 independent patches;
- remove the patch 4/4, the fix is not for cryptodev tree;

Qiang Liu (8):
Talitos: Support for async_tx XOR offload
fsl-dma: remove attribute DMA_INTERRUPT of dmaengine
fsl-dma: add fsl_dma_free_descriptor() to reduce code duplication
fsl-dma: move functions to avoid forward declarations
fsl-dma: change release process of dma descriptor for supporting async_tx
fsl-dma: use spin_lock_bh to instead of spin_lock_irqsave
fsl-dma: fix a warning of unitialized cookie
carma: remove unnecessary DMA_INTERRUPT capability

drivers/crypto/Kconfig | 9 +
drivers/crypto/talitos.c | 413 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/crypto/talitos.h | 53 ++++
drivers/dma/fsldma.c | 487 +++++++++++++++++--------------
drivers/dma/fsldma.h | 17 +-
drivers/misc/carma/carma-fpga-program.c | 1 -
drivers/misc/carma/carma-fpga.c | 2 +-
7 files changed, 760 insertions(+), 222 deletions(-)


2012-08-07 01:35:06

by Kim Phillips

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] Raid: enable talitos xor offload for improving performance

On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 18:10:15 +0800
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Changes in v6:
> - swap the order of original patch 3/6 and 4/6;
> - merge Ira's patch to reduce the size of original patch;
> - merge Ira's patch of carma in 8/8;
> - update documents and descriptions according to Ira's advice;

fwiw, I gave v5 a test-drive, setting up a RAID5 array on ramdisks
[1], and this patchseries, along with FSL_DMA && NET_DMA set seems
to be holding water, so this series gets my:

Tested-by: Kim Phillips <[email protected]>

Thanks,

Kim

[1] mdadm --create --verbose --force /dev/md0 --level=raid5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/ram[0123]

2012-08-07 03:27:53

by Liu Qiang-B32616

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Subject: RE: [PATCH v6 0/8] Raid: enable talitos xor offload for improving performance

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillips Kim-R1AAHA
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 9:35 AM
> To: Liu Qiang-B32616
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; linux-
> [email protected]; [email protected]; Li Yang-R58472
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] Raid: enable talitos xor offload for
> improving performance
>
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 18:10:15 +0800
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Changes in v6:
> > - swap the order of original patch 3/6 and 4/6;
> > - merge Ira's patch to reduce the size of original patch;
> > - merge Ira's patch of carma in 8/8;
> > - update documents and descriptions according to Ira's advice;
>
> fwiw, I gave v5 a test-drive, setting up a RAID5 array on ramdisks [1],
> and this patchseries, along with FSL_DMA && NET_DMA set seems to be
> holding water, so this series gets my:
>
> Tested-by: Kim Phillips <[email protected]>
Thanks, Kim. I will add this line in v7:)

>
> Thanks,
>
> Kim
>
> [1] mdadm --create --verbose --force /dev/md0 --level=raid5 --raid-
> devices=4 /dev/ram[0123]