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| author | Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com> | 2017-06-15 02:18:43 +0300 |
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| committer | Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> | 2017-06-15 14:25:56 +0200 |
| commit | 43240bbd871e2c8f89584d369278a3d18680d9ea (patch) | |
| tree | 925ddae78046c366d0bbeb93657a73f6d77a2d88 /drivers | |
| parent | 8474b02531c4881a762c52ef869c52429e38633f (diff) | |
gpu: host1x: At first try a non-blocking allocation for the gather copy
The blocking gather copy allocation is a major performance downside of the
Host1x firewall, it may take hundreds milliseconds which is unacceptable
for the real-time graphics operations. Let's try a non-blocking allocation
first as a least invasive solution, it makes opentegra (Xorg driver)
performance indistinguishable with/without the firewall.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/host1x/job.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/host1x/job.c b/drivers/gpu/host1x/job.c index f32ae69a68c7..bee504406cfc 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/host1x/job.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/host1x/job.c @@ -574,12 +574,20 @@ static inline int copy_gathers(struct host1x_job *job, struct device *dev) size += g->words * sizeof(u32); } + /* + * Try a non-blocking allocation from a higher priority pools first, + * as awaiting for the allocation here is a major performance hit. + */ job->gather_copy_mapped = dma_alloc_wc(dev, size, &job->gather_copy, - GFP_KERNEL); - if (!job->gather_copy_mapped) { - job->gather_copy_mapped = NULL; + GFP_NOWAIT); + + /* the higher priority allocation failed, try the generic-blocking */ + if (!job->gather_copy_mapped) + job->gather_copy_mapped = dma_alloc_wc(dev, size, + &job->gather_copy, + GFP_KERNEL); + if (!job->gather_copy_mapped) return -ENOMEM; - } job->gather_copy_size = size; |