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    dma: avoid redundant calls for sync operations · f406c8e4
    Alexander Lobakin authored
    Quite often, devices do not need dma_sync operations on x86_64 at least.
    Indeed, when dev_is_dma_coherent(dev) is true and
    dev_use_swiotlb(dev) is false, iommu_dma_sync_single_for_cpu()
    and friends do nothing.
    
    However, indirectly calling them when CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y consumes about
    10% of cycles on a cpu receiving packets from softirq at ~100Gbit rate.
    Even if/when CONFIG_RETPOLINE is not set, there is a cost of about 3%.
    
    Add dev->need_dma_sync boolean and turn it off during the device
    initialization (dma_set_mask()) depending on the setup:
    dev_is_dma_coherent() for the direct DMA, !(sync_single_for_device ||
    sync_single_for_cpu) or the new dma_map_ops flag, %DMA_F_CAN_SKIP_SYNC,
    advertised for non-NULL DMA ops.
    Then later, if/when swiotlb is used for the first time, the flag
    is reset back to on, from swiotlb_tbl_map_single().
    
    On iavf, the UDP trafficgen with XDP_DROP in skb mode test shows
    +3-5% increase for direct DMA.
    
    Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> # direct DMA shortcut
    Co-developed-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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