From: Chao Gao <chao.gao@xxxxxxxxx> commit 9e02977bfad006af328add9434c8bffa40e053bb upstream. When we looked into FIO performance with swiotlb enabled in VM, we found swiotlb_bounce() is always called one more time than expected for each DMA read request. It turns out that the bounce buffer is copied to original DMA buffer twice after the completion of a DMA request (one is done by in dma_direct_sync_single_for_cpu(), the other by swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single()). But the content in bounce buffer actually doesn't change between the two rounds of copy. So, one round of copy is redundant. Pass DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC flag to swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single() to skip the memory copy in it. This fix increases FIO 64KB sequential read throughput in a guest with swiotlb=force by 5.6%. Fixes: 55897af63091 ("dma-direct: merge swiotlb_dma_ops into the dma_direct code") Reported-by: Wang Zhaoyang1 <zhaoyang1.wang@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Gao Liang <liang.gao@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/dma/direct.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/dma/direct.h +++ b/kernel/dma/direct.h @@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ static inline void dma_direct_unmap_page dma_direct_sync_single_for_cpu(dev, addr, size, dir); if (unlikely(is_swiotlb_buffer(phys))) - swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single(dev, phys, size, size, dir, attrs); + swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single(dev, phys, size, size, dir, + attrs | DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC); } #endif /* _KERNEL_DMA_DIRECT_H */