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From: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio•com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB•COM>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix•de>,
	"x86@kernel•org" <x86@kernel•org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	"mingo@redhat•com" <mingo@redhat•com>,
	"hpa@zytor•com" <hpa@zytor•com>,
	"davem@davemloft•net" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation•org" <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
	"torvalds@linux-foundation•org" <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>,
	Ganesh GR <ganeshgr@chelsio•com>,
	Nirranjan Kirubaharan <nirranjan@chelsio•com>,
	Indranil Choudhury <indranil@chelsio•com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] x86/io: implement 256-bit IO read and write
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:58:08 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180321122807.GB3245@chelsio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5f43882155104f50bbd2e5cf63d432f2@AcuMS.aculab.com>

On Tuesday, March 03/20/18, 2018 at 20:10:19 +0530, David Laight wrote:
> From: Rahul Lakkireddy
> > Sent: 20 March 2018 13:32
> ...
> > On High Availability Server, the logs of the failing system must be
> > collected as quickly as possible.  So, we're concerned with the amount
> > of time taken to collect our large on-chip memory.  We see improvement
> > in doing 256-bit reads at a time.
> 
> Two other options:
> 
> 1) Get the device to DMA into host memory.
> 

Unfortunately, our device doesn't support doing DMA of on-chip memory.

> 2) Use mmap() (and vm_iomap_memory() in your driver) to get direct
>    userspace access to the (I assume) PCIe memory space.
>    You can then use whatever copy instructions the cpu has.
>    (Just don't use memcpy().)
> 

We also need to collect this in kernel space i.e. from crash recovery
kernel.

Thanks,
Rahul

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-21 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-19 14:20 [RFC PATCH 0/3] kernel: add support for 256-bit IO access Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-03-19 14:20 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] include/linux: add 256-bit IO accessors Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-03-19 14:20 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] x86/io: implement 256-bit IO read and write Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-03-19 14:43   ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-20 13:32     ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-03-20 13:44       ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-21 12:27         ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-03-20 14:40       ` David Laight
2018-03-21 12:28         ` Rahul Lakkireddy [this message]
2018-03-20 14:42       ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-21 12:28         ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-03-22  1:26         ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-22 10:48           ` David Laight
2018-03-22 17:16             ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-19 14:20 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] cxgb4: read on-chip memory 256-bits at a time Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-03-19 14:53 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] kernel: add support for 256-bit IO access David Laight
2018-03-19 15:05   ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-19 15:19     ` David Laight
2018-03-19 15:37       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-19 15:53         ` David Laight
2018-03-19 16:29           ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-20  8:26         ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-20  8:38           ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-20  9:08             ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-20  9:41               ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-20  9:59                 ` David Laight
2018-03-20 10:54                 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-20 13:30                   ` David Laight
2018-04-03  8:49                   ` Pavel Machek
2018-04-03 10:36                     ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-20 14:57           ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-20 15:10             ` David Laight
2018-03-21  0:39               ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-20 18:01           ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-21  6:32             ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-21 15:45               ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-22  9:36                 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-21  7:46             ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-21 18:15               ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-22  9:33                 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-22 17:40                   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-22 17:44                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-22 10:35                 ` David Laight
2018-03-22 12:48                   ` David Laight
2018-03-22 17:07                     ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-19 15:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-20 13:45   ` Rahul Lakkireddy

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