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mmc: alcor: fix DMA reads

Message ID 20190320063653.22638-1-drake@endlessm.com (mailing list archive)
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Series mmc: alcor: fix DMA reads | expand

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Daniel Drake March 20, 2019, 6:36 a.m. UTC
Setting max_blk_count to 1 here was causing the mmc block layer
to always use the MMC_READ_SINGLE_BLOCK command here, which the
driver does not DMA-accelerate.

Drop the max_blk_ settings here. The mmc host defaults suffice,
along with the max_segs and max_seg_size settings, which I have
now documented in more detail.

Now each MMC command reads 4 512-byte blocks, using DMA instead of
PIO. On my SD card, this increases read performance (measured with dd)
from 167kb/sec to 4.6mb/sec.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAD8Lp47L5T3jnAjBiPs1cQ+yFA3L6LJtgFvMETnBrY63-Zdi2g@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>
---
 drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Comments

Oleksij Rempel March 20, 2019, 10:16 a.m. UTC | #1
Am 20.03.19 um 07:36 schrieb Daniel Drake:
> Setting max_blk_count to 1 here was causing the mmc block layer
> to always use the MMC_READ_SINGLE_BLOCK command here, which the
> driver does not DMA-accelerate.
> 
> Drop the max_blk_ settings here. The mmc host defaults suffice,
> along with the max_segs and max_seg_size settings, which I have
> now documented in more detail.
> 
> Now each MMC command reads 4 512-byte blocks, using DMA instead of
> PIO. On my SD card, this increases read performance (measured with dd)
> from 167kb/sec to 4.6mb/sec.
> 
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAD8Lp47L5T3jnAjBiPs1cQ+yFA3L6LJtgFvMETnBrY63-Zdi2g@mail.gmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>


Reviewed-by: Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>

> ---
>  drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c b/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c
> index c712b7deb3a9d..82a97866e0cf4 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c
> @@ -1044,14 +1044,27 @@ static void alcor_init_mmc(struct alcor_sdmmc_host *host)
>  	mmc->caps2 = MMC_CAP2_NO_SDIO;
>  	mmc->ops = &alcor_sdc_ops;
>  
> -	/* Hardware cannot do scatter lists */
> +	/* The hardware does DMA data transfer of 4096 bytes to/from a single
> +	 * buffer address. Scatterlists are not supported, but upon DMA
> +	 * completion (signalled via IRQ), the original vendor driver does
> +	 * then immediately set up another DMA transfer of the next 4096
> +	 * bytes.
> +	 *
> +	 * This means that we need to handle the I/O in 4096 byte chunks.
> +	 * Lacking a way to limit the sglist entries to 4096 bytes, we instead
> +	 * impose that only one segment is provided, with maximum size 4096,
> +	 * which also happens to be the minimum size. This means that the
> +	 * single-entry sglist handled by this driver can be handed directly
> +	 * to the hardware, nice and simple.
> +	 *
> +	 * Unfortunately though, that means we only do 4096 bytes I/O per
> +	 * MMC command. A future improvement would be to make the driver
> +	 * accept sg lists and entries of any size, and simply iterate
> +	 * through them 4096 bytes at a time.
> +	 */
>  	mmc->max_segs = AU6601_MAX_DMA_SEGMENTS;
>  	mmc->max_seg_size = AU6601_MAX_DMA_BLOCK_SIZE;
> -
> -	mmc->max_blk_size = mmc->max_seg_size;
> -	mmc->max_blk_count = mmc->max_segs;
> -
> -	mmc->max_req_size = mmc->max_seg_size * mmc->max_segs;
> +	mmc->max_req_size = mmc->max_seg_size;
>  }
>  
>  static int alcor_pci_sdmmc_drv_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
Ulf Hansson March 21, 2019, 10:46 a.m. UTC | #2
On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at 07:36, Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com> wrote:
>
> Setting max_blk_count to 1 here was causing the mmc block layer
> to always use the MMC_READ_SINGLE_BLOCK command here, which the
> driver does not DMA-accelerate.
>
> Drop the max_blk_ settings here. The mmc host defaults suffice,
> along with the max_segs and max_seg_size settings, which I have
> now documented in more detail.
>
> Now each MMC command reads 4 512-byte blocks, using DMA instead of
> PIO. On my SD card, this increases read performance (measured with dd)
> from 167kb/sec to 4.6mb/sec.
>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAD8Lp47L5T3jnAjBiPs1cQ+yFA3L6LJtgFvMETnBrY63-Zdi2g@mail.gmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>

Applies for fixes, thanks!

I also added:
Fixes: c5413ad815a6 ("mmc: add new Alcor Micro Cardreader SD/MMC driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Kind regards
Uffe


> ---
>  drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c b/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c
> index c712b7deb3a9d..82a97866e0cf4 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c
> @@ -1044,14 +1044,27 @@ static void alcor_init_mmc(struct alcor_sdmmc_host *host)
>         mmc->caps2 = MMC_CAP2_NO_SDIO;
>         mmc->ops = &alcor_sdc_ops;
>
> -       /* Hardware cannot do scatter lists */
> +       /* The hardware does DMA data transfer of 4096 bytes to/from a single
> +        * buffer address. Scatterlists are not supported, but upon DMA
> +        * completion (signalled via IRQ), the original vendor driver does
> +        * then immediately set up another DMA transfer of the next 4096
> +        * bytes.
> +        *
> +        * This means that we need to handle the I/O in 4096 byte chunks.
> +        * Lacking a way to limit the sglist entries to 4096 bytes, we instead
> +        * impose that only one segment is provided, with maximum size 4096,
> +        * which also happens to be the minimum size. This means that the
> +        * single-entry sglist handled by this driver can be handed directly
> +        * to the hardware, nice and simple.
> +        *
> +        * Unfortunately though, that means we only do 4096 bytes I/O per
> +        * MMC command. A future improvement would be to make the driver
> +        * accept sg lists and entries of any size, and simply iterate
> +        * through them 4096 bytes at a time.
> +        */
>         mmc->max_segs = AU6601_MAX_DMA_SEGMENTS;
>         mmc->max_seg_size = AU6601_MAX_DMA_BLOCK_SIZE;
> -
> -       mmc->max_blk_size = mmc->max_seg_size;
> -       mmc->max_blk_count = mmc->max_segs;
> -
> -       mmc->max_req_size = mmc->max_seg_size * mmc->max_segs;
> +       mmc->max_req_size = mmc->max_seg_size;
>  }
>
>  static int alcor_pci_sdmmc_drv_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> --
> 2.19.1
>
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diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c b/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c
index c712b7deb3a9d..82a97866e0cf4 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c
@@ -1044,14 +1044,27 @@  static void alcor_init_mmc(struct alcor_sdmmc_host *host)
 	mmc->caps2 = MMC_CAP2_NO_SDIO;
 	mmc->ops = &alcor_sdc_ops;
 
-	/* Hardware cannot do scatter lists */
+	/* The hardware does DMA data transfer of 4096 bytes to/from a single
+	 * buffer address. Scatterlists are not supported, but upon DMA
+	 * completion (signalled via IRQ), the original vendor driver does
+	 * then immediately set up another DMA transfer of the next 4096
+	 * bytes.
+	 *
+	 * This means that we need to handle the I/O in 4096 byte chunks.
+	 * Lacking a way to limit the sglist entries to 4096 bytes, we instead
+	 * impose that only one segment is provided, with maximum size 4096,
+	 * which also happens to be the minimum size. This means that the
+	 * single-entry sglist handled by this driver can be handed directly
+	 * to the hardware, nice and simple.
+	 *
+	 * Unfortunately though, that means we only do 4096 bytes I/O per
+	 * MMC command. A future improvement would be to make the driver
+	 * accept sg lists and entries of any size, and simply iterate
+	 * through them 4096 bytes at a time.
+	 */
 	mmc->max_segs = AU6601_MAX_DMA_SEGMENTS;
 	mmc->max_seg_size = AU6601_MAX_DMA_BLOCK_SIZE;
-
-	mmc->max_blk_size = mmc->max_seg_size;
-	mmc->max_blk_count = mmc->max_segs;
-
-	mmc->max_req_size = mmc->max_seg_size * mmc->max_segs;
+	mmc->max_req_size = mmc->max_seg_size;
 }
 
 static int alcor_pci_sdmmc_drv_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)