This patch series is based on a work made by Samsung in 2015 meant
to add memory-mapped I/O to the Linux media, in order to improve
performance. The preparation patches were merged on that time, but
we didn't have time to test and finish the final patch.
Fortunately, Satendra helped us doing such port. On my tests, even
on USB drivers, where we need to do DMA at URB buffers, the
performance gains seem considerable.
On the tests I did today, with perf stat, the gains were expressive:
- the number of task clocks reduced by 3,5 times;
- the number of context switches reduced by about 4,5 times;
- the number of CPU cycles reduced by almost 3,5 times;
- the number of executed instructions reduced almost 2 times;
- the number of cache references reduced by almost 8 times;
- the number of cache misses reduced more than 4,5 times.
The patches are at:
https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental.git/log/?h=dvb_mmap
An userspace test patchset is at:
https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental-v4l-utils.git/log/?h=dvb_mmap
More details about my tests can be found on my comments to the
original Satendra's patch:
https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/46101/
Mauro Carvalho Chehab (9):
media: vb2-core: add pr_fmt() macro
media: vb2-core: add a new warning about pending buffers
media: dvb_vb2: fix a warning about streamoff logic
media: move videobuf2 to drivers/media/common
media: dvb uAPI docs: document demux mmap/munmap syscalls
media: dvb uAPI docs: document mmap-related ioctls
media: dvb-core: get rid of mmap reserved field
fs: compat_ioctl: add new DVB demux ioctls
media: dvb_vb2: add SPDX headers
Satendra Singh Thakur (2):
media: vb2-core: Fix a bug about unnecessary calls to queue cancel and
free
media: videobuf2: Add new uAPI for DVB streaming I/O
Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/dmx-expbuf.rst | 88 +++++
Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/dmx-mmap.rst | 116 ++++++
Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/dmx-munmap.rst | 54 +++
Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/dmx-qbuf.rst | 83 ++++
Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/dmx-querybuf.rst | 63 +++
Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/dmx-reqbufs.rst | 74 ++++
Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/dmx_fcalls.rst | 6 +
drivers/media/common/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/media/common/Makefile | 2 +-
drivers/media/common/videobuf/Kconfig | 31 ++
drivers/media/common/videobuf/Makefile | 7 +
.../videobuf}/videobuf2-core.c | 38 +-
.../videobuf}/videobuf2-dma-contig.c | 0
.../videobuf}/videobuf2-dma-sg.c | 0
.../{v4l2-core => common/videobuf}/videobuf2-dvb.c | 0
.../videobuf}/videobuf2-memops.c | 0
.../videobuf}/videobuf2-v4l2.c | 0
.../videobuf}/videobuf2-vmalloc.c | 0
drivers/media/dvb-core/Makefile | 2 +-
drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c | 196 ++++++++--
drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.h | 4 +
drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_vb2.c | 430 +++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_vb2.h | 74 ++++
drivers/media/v4l2-core/Kconfig | 32 --
drivers/media/v4l2-core/Makefile | 7 -
fs/compat_ioctl.c | 5 +
include/uapi/linux/dvb/dmx.h | 63 ++-
27 files changed, 1290 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/dmx-expbuf.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/dmx-mmap.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/dmx-munmap.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/dmx-qbuf.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/dmx-querybuf.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/dmx-reqbufs.rst
create mode 100644 drivers/media/common/videobuf/Kconfig
create mode 100644 drivers/media/common/videobuf/Makefile
rename drivers/media/{v4l2-core => common/videobuf}/videobuf2-core.c (98%)
rename drivers/media/{v4l2-core => common/videobuf}/videobuf2-dma-contig.c
(100%)
rename drivers/media/{v4l2-core => common/videobuf}/videobuf2-dma-sg.c (100%)
rename drivers/media/{v4l2-core => common/videobuf}/videobuf2-dvb.c (100%)
rename drivers/media/{v4l2-core => common/videobuf}/videobuf2-memops.c (100%)
rename drivers/media/{v4l2-core => common/videobuf}/videobuf2-v4l2.c (100%)
rename drivers/media/{v4l2-core => common/videobuf}/videobuf2-vmalloc.c (100%)
create mode 100644 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_vb2.c
create mode 100644 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_vb2.h
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