Hi all, a while ago Jesper reported major performance regressions due to the spectre v2 mitigations in his XDP forwarding workloads. A large part of that is due to the DMA mapping API indirect calls.
It turns out that the most common implementation of the DMA API is the direct mapping case, and now that we have merged almost all duplicate implementations of that into a single generic one is easily feasily to direct calls for this fast path. This patch adds a check if we are using dma_direct_ops in each fast path DMA operation, and just uses a direct call instead. For the XDP workload this increases the number of packets per second from 7,438,283 to 9,610,088, so it provides a very significant speedup. Note that the patch depends on a lot of work either queued up in the DMA mapping tree, or still out on the list from review, so to actually try the patch you probably want this git tree: git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git dma-direct-calls Gitweb: http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/dma-direct-calls _______________________________________________ iommu mailing list iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/iommu