Re: MMC performance degradation due to too many requests

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On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 5:11 PM, Faiz Abbas <faiz_abbas@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 May 2018 06:09 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Faiz Abbas <faiz_abbas@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Also, I see many times the number of interrupts for mmc1 in 4.14.
>> (...)
>>> I also printed out the size of the DMA transfers in the omap_hsmmc
>>> driver during the dd command. I see that the maximum size of the dma
>>> transfer has decreased from 1 MB to 256kB between 4.13 and 4.14.
>>
>> This seems like my fault for removing the bounce buffer.
>> (The name bounce buffer is misleading, I suspect the right
>> term for what is was doing was "merge buffer" or something,
>> coalescing physically consecutive requests.)
>>
>> commit de3ee99b097dd51938276e3af388cd4ad0f2750a
>> "mmc: Delete bounce buffer handling"
>> should be the culprit.
>
> I don't think so. I checked out to the commit before that and see that
> the interrupts are still too high.

OK phew then I'm safe :)

>> The bounce buffer only makes any performance impact if the
>> host DMA controller is unable to handle scatter-gather lists
>> so the number of segments is set down to 1.
>>
>> Can you verifty that:
>> - mmc->max_segs == 1
>
> No. It is 64 in v4.14. It was 1024 in v4.13.

This smells like:
commit 9442400486a1ec28915e9ab31517a5665ed35705
"mmc: omap_hsmmc: Reduce max_segs for reliability"

Can you test reverting that and notify Will Newton if this
commit is causing performance regressions.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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