Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] stk1160: allocate urb buffs with the DMA noncontiguous API

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On 17/02/2022 07:07, Dafna Hirschfeld wrote:
> This set replaces urb buffers allocation to use the DMA
> noncontiguous API. Similarly to a commit sent to uvc: [1]
> This improves performance on ARM while not damaging performance
> on other platforms. The cpu performance on ARM
> improves because the new API does not cause the cache disable on ARM
> while the coherent API do.
> Measurements are shown in patch 4/4
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/3/12/1506
> 
> Patches Summary:
> * patches 1+2 are bug fixes.
> * patch 3 changes the way data is stored. This is a preparation
> to patch 4.
> * patch 4 is the change of API to use the noncontiguougs.
> 
> Since changes on v3 are minors, I only tested that the driver works but not tested performance again.
> 
> Changes since v2:
> 1. improve commit log for patch 4, and "s/stk_free_urb_buffer/stk1160_free_urb/"

Ah, I missed the v3. But in the v2 I merged for the pull request I made exactly
the same changes in patch 4. So I will just mark this v3 as 'Obsoleted' and
keep the version in the PR.

Regards,

	Hans

> 
> Changes since v1:
> 1. reduce line length to be not too longer than 80 char
> 2. reformulate commit log of patch 4/4 and add measurements results
> 3. in patch 4, invalidate the vmap range before the direct mapping range.
> 4. test regressions for patches 1-3 (not including patch 4) and improve vars names
> 5. patch 2 is a new bug fix I found
> 6. patch 1 is extended to fix two cases of not allocating all intended urb buffers.
> 
> Dafna Hirschfeld (4):
>   media: stk1160: fix number of buffers in case not all buffers are
>     created
>   media: stk1160: If start stream fails, return buffers with
>     VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED
>   media: stk1160: move transfer_buffer and urb to same struct
>     'stk1160_urb'
>   media: stk1160: use dma_alloc_noncontiguous API
> 
>  drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160-core.c  |   2 +-
>  drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160-v4l.c   |  16 ++-
>  drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160-video.c | 142 ++++++++++++----------
>  drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160.h       |  23 +++-
>  4 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)
> 




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