On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 10:12 PM Shik Chen <s...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Similar to the commit 1161db6776bd ("media: usb: pwc: Don't use coherent
> DMA buffers for ISO transfer") [1] for the pwc driver. Use streaming DMA
> APIs to transfer buffers and sync them explicitly, because accessing
> buffers allocated by usb_alloc_coherent() is slow on platforms without
> hardware coherent DMA.
>
> Tested on x86-64 (Intel Celeron 4305U) and armv7l (Rockchip RK3288) with
> Logitech Brio 4K camera at 1920x1080 using the WebRTC sample site [3].
>
> | | URB (us) | Decode (Gbps) | CPU (%) |
> |------------------|------------|---------------|---------|
> | x86-64 coherent | 53 +- 20 | 50.6 | 0.24 |
> | x86-64 streaming | 55 +- 19 | 50.1 | 0.25 |
> | armv7l coherent | 342 +- 379 | 1.8 | 2.16 |
> | armv7l streaming | 99 +- 98 | 11.0 | 0.36 |
>
> The performance characteristics are improved a lot on armv7l, and
> remained (almost) unchanged on x86-64. The code used for measurement can
> be found at [2].
>
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/1161db6776bd
> [2] https://crrev.com/c/1729133
> [3] https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/getusermedia/resolution/
>
> Signed-off-by: Shik Chen <s...@chromium.org>
> ---
> The allocated buffer could be as large as 768K when streaming 4K video.
> Ideally we should use some generic helper to allocate non-coherent
> memory in a more efficient way, such as https://lwn.net/Articles/774429/
> ("make the non-consistent DMA allocator more userful").
>
> But I cannot find any existing helper so a simple kzalloc() is used in
> this patch. The logic to figure out the DMA addressable GFP flags is
> similar to __dma_direct_alloc_pages() without the optimistic retries:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.2.5/source/kernel/dma/direct.c#L96
>
> drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> index 8fa77a81dd7f2c..962c35478896c4 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> @@ -1539,6 +1539,8 @@ static void uvc_video_complete(struct urb *urb)
> * Process the URB headers, and optionally queue expensive memcpy
> tasks
> * to be deferred to a work queue.
> */
> + dma_sync_single_for_cpu(&urb->dev->dev, urb->transfer_dma,
> + urb->transfer_buffer_length, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
> stream->decode(uvc_urb, buf, buf_meta);
>
> /* If no async work is needed, resubmit the URB immediately. */
> @@ -1565,18 +1567,51 @@ static void uvc_free_urb_buffers(struct uvc_streaming
> *stream)
> if (!uvc_urb->buffer)
> continue;
>
> -#ifndef CONFIG_DMA_NONCOHERENT
> - usb_free_coherent(stream->dev->udev, stream->urb_size,
> - uvc_urb->buffer, uvc_urb->dma);
> -#else
> + dma_unmap_single(&stream->dev->udev->dev, uvc_urb->dma,
> + stream->urb_size, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
> kfree(uvc_urb->buffer);
> -#endif
> - uvc_urb->buffer = NULL;
> }
>
> stream->urb_size = 0;
> }
>
> +static gfp_t uvc_alloc_gfp_flags(struct device *dev)
> +{
> + u64 mask = dma_get_mask(dev);
> +
> + if (dev->bus_dma_mask)
> + mask &= dev->bus_dma_mask;
> +
> + if (mask < DMA_BIT_MASK(32) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA))
> + return GFP_DMA;
> +
> + if (mask < DMA_BIT_MASK(64)) {
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32))
> + return GFP_DMA32;
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA))
> + return GFP_DMA;
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static char *uvc_alloc_urb_buffer(struct device *dev, size_t size,
> + gfp_t gfp_flags, dma_addr_t *dma_handle)
> +{
> + void *buffer = kzalloc(size, gfp_flags | uvc_alloc_gfp_flags(dev));
> +
> + if (!buffer)
> + return NULL;
> +
> + *dma_handle = dma_map_single(dev, buffer, size, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
> + if (dma_mapping_error(dev, *dma_handle)) {
> + kfree(buffer);
> + return NULL;
> + }
> +
> + return buffer;
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Allocate transfer buffers. This function can be called with buffers
> * already allocated when resuming from suspend, in which case it will
> @@ -1607,18 +1642,14 @@ static int uvc_alloc_urb_buffers(struct uvc_streaming
> *stream,
>
> /* Retry allocations until one succeed. */
> for (; npackets > 1; npackets /= 2) {
> + stream->urb_size = psize * npackets;
> +
> for (i = 0; i < UVC_URBS; ++i) {
> struct uvc_urb *uvc_urb = &stream->uvc_urb[i];
>
> - stream->urb_size = psize * npackets;
> -#ifndef CONFIG_DMA_NONCOHERENT
> - uvc_urb->buffer = usb_alloc_coherent(
> - stream->dev->udev, stream->urb_size,
> + uvc_urb->buffer = uvc_alloc_urb_buffer(
> + &stream->dev->udev->dev, stream->urb_size,
> gfp_flags | __GFP_NOWARN, &uvc_urb->dma);
> -#else
> - uvc_urb->buffer =
> - kmalloc(stream->urb_size, gfp_flags |
> __GFP_NOWARN);
> -#endif
> if (!uvc_urb->buffer) {
> uvc_free_urb_buffers(stream);
> break;
> @@ -1728,12 +1759,8 @@ static int uvc_init_video_isoc(struct uvc_streaming
> *stream,
> urb->context = uvc_urb;
> urb->pipe = usb_rcvisocpipe(stream->dev->udev,
> ep->desc.bEndpointAddress);
> -#ifndef CONFIG_DMA_NONCOHERENT
> urb->transfer_flags = URB_ISO_ASAP | URB_NO_TRANSFER_DMA_MAP;
> urb->transfer_dma = uvc_urb->dma;
> -#else
> - urb->transfer_flags = URB_ISO_ASAP;
> -#endif
> urb->interval = ep->desc.bInterval;
> urb->transfer_buffer = uvc_urb->buffer;
> urb->complete = uvc_video_complete;
> @@ -1793,10 +1820,8 @@ static int uvc_init_video_bulk(struct uvc_streaming
> *stream,
>
> usb_fill_bulk_urb(urb, stream->dev->udev, pipe,
> uvc_urb->buffer,
> size, uvc_video_complete, uvc_urb);
> -#ifndef CONFIG_DMA_NONCOHERENT
> urb->transfer_flags = URB_NO_TRANSFER_DMA_MAP;
> urb->transfer_dma = uvc_urb->dma;
> -#endif
>
> uvc_urb->urb = urb;
> }
> --
> 2.22.0.770.g0f2c4a37fd-goog
>
Gentle ping.
Also, oops, looks like we forgot to add Kieran on CC. Let me fix it now.
Best regards,
Tomasz
