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authorMing Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>2011-08-31 00:03:13 +0800
committerPeter Chen <peter.chen@freescale.com>2011-09-01 12:14:37 +0800
commitadcf62a108cf6326ce051a6a71a5b754cc3376f9 (patch)
treebd985dc4dec3a1b5d6552cd1e900f27e435b3fb9
parent081ccd6d86013b0bac695dacd20028b17f74b615 (diff)
usb: ehci: make HC see up-to-date qh/qtd descriptor ASAP
This patch introduces the helper of ehci_sync_mem to flush qtd/qh into memory immediately on some ARM, so that HC can see the up-to-date qtd/qh descriptor asap. This patch fixs one performance bug on ARM Cortex A9 dual core platform, which has been reported on quite a few ARM machines (OMAP4, Tegra 2, snowball...), see details from link of https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/709245. The patch has been tested ok on OMAP4 panda A1 board, and the performance of 'dd' over usb mass storage can be increased from 4~5MB/sec to 14~16MB/sec after applying this patch. Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c18
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/host/ehci.h17
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c
index 233c288e3f93..f26be6e830d0 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c
@@ -1005,6 +1005,12 @@ static void qh_link_async (struct ehci_hcd *ehci, struct ehci_qh *qh)
head->qh_next.qh = qh;
head->hw->hw_next = dma;
+ /*
+ * flush qh descriptor into memory immediately,
+ * see comments in qh_append_tds.
+ * */
+ ehci_sync_mem();
+
qh_get(qh);
qh->xacterrs = 0;
qh->qh_state = QH_STATE_LINKED;
@@ -1092,6 +1098,18 @@ static struct ehci_qh *qh_append_tds (
wmb ();
dummy->hw_token = token;
+ /*
+ * Writing to dma coherent buffer on ARM may
+ * be delayed to reach memory, so HC may not see
+ * hw_token of dummy qtd in time, which can cause
+ * the qtd transaction to be executed very late,
+ * and degrade performance a lot. ehci_sync_mem
+ * is added to flush 'token' immediatelly into
+ * memory, so that ehci can execute the transaction
+ * ASAP.
+ * */
+ ehci_sync_mem();
+
urb->hcpriv = qh_get (qh);
}
}
diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci.h b/drivers/usb/host/ehci.h
index 70331720d127..caf89665e245 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci.h
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci.h
@@ -737,6 +737,23 @@ static inline u32 hc32_to_cpup (const struct ehci_hcd *ehci, const __hc32 *x)
#endif
+/*
+ * Writing to dma coherent memory on ARM may be delayed via L2
+ * writing buffer, so introduce the helper which can flush L2 writing
+ * buffer into memory immediately, especially used to flush ehci
+ * descriptor to memory.
+ * */
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_DMA_MEM_BUFFERABLE
+static inline void ehci_sync_mem()
+{
+ mb();
+}
+#else
+static inline void ehci_sync_mem()
+{
+}
+#endif
+
/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
#ifndef DEBUG