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Dan Williams 47437b2c9a async_tx: allow architecture specific async_tx_find_channel implementations
The source and destination addresses are included to allow channel
selection based on address alignment.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2008-02-06 10:12:18 -07:00
Dan Williams d4c56f97ff async_tx: replace 'int_en' with operation preparation flags
Pass a full set of flags to drivers' per-operation 'prep' routines.
Currently the only flag passed is DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT.  The expectation is
that arch-specific async_tx_find_channel() implementations can exploit this
capability to find the best channel for an operation.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2008-02-06 10:12:18 -07:00
Dan Williams 0036731c88 async_tx: kill tx_set_src and tx_set_dest methods
The tx_set_src and tx_set_dest methods were originally implemented to allow
an array of addresses to be passed down from async_xor to the dmaengine
driver while minimizing stack overhead.  Removing these methods allows
drivers to have all transaction parameters available at 'prep' time, saves
two function pointers in struct dma_async_tx_descriptor, and reduces the
number of indirect branches..

A consequence of moving this data to the 'prep' routine is that
multi-source routines like async_xor need temporary storage to convert an
array of linear addresses into an array of dma addresses.  In order to keep
the same stack footprint of the previous implementation the input array is
reused as storage for the dma addresses.  This requires that
sizeof(dma_addr_t) be less than or equal to sizeof(void *).  As a
consequence CONFIG_DMADEVICES now depends on !CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G.  It also
requires that drivers be able to make descriptor resources available when
the 'prep' routine is polled.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
2008-02-06 10:12:17 -07:00
Dan Williams d909b34759 async_tx: kill ASYNC_TX_ASSUME_COHERENT
Remove the unused ASYNC_TX_ASSUME_COHERENT flag.  Async_tx is
meant to hide the difference between asynchronous hardware and synchronous
software operations, this flag requires clients to understand cache
coherency consequences of the async path.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2008-02-06 10:12:17 -07:00
Denis Cheng cf8f68aa76 async_tx: use LIST_HEAD instead of LIST_HEAD_INIT
single list_head variable initialized with LIST_HEAD_INIT could almost
always can be replaced with LIST_HEAD declaration, this shrinks the code
and looks better.

Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2008-02-06 10:12:17 -07:00
Dan Williams 1367a3d310 async_tx: fix compile breakage, mark do_async_xor __always_inline
do_async_xor must be compiled away on !HAS_DMA archs.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
2008-02-06 10:12:17 -07:00
Dan Williams 6247cdc2cd async_tx: fix dma_wait_for_async_tx
Fix dma_wait_for_async_tx to not loop forever in the case where a
dependency chain is longer than two entries.  This condition will not
happen with current in-kernel drivers, but fix it for future drivers.

Found-by: Saeed Bishara <saeed.bishara@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2007-09-24 10:26:26 -07:00
Dan Williams eb0645a8b1 async_tx: fix kmap_atomic usage in async_memcpy
Andrew Morton:
	[async_memcpy] is very wrong if both ASYNC_TX_KMAP_DST and
	ASYNC_TX_KMAP_SRC can ever be set.  We'll end up using the same kmap
	slot for both src add dest and we get either corrupted data or a BUG.

Evgeniy Polyakov:
	Btw, shouldn't it always be kmap_atomic() even if flag is not set.
	That pages are usual one returned by alloc_page().

So fix the usage of kmap_atomic and kill the ASYNC_TX_KMAP_DST and
ASYNC_TX_KMAP_SRC flags.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-20 08:44:19 -07:00
Dan Williams 9bc89cd82d async_tx: add the async_tx api
The async_tx api provides methods for describing a chain of asynchronous
bulk memory transfers/transforms with support for inter-transactional
dependencies.  It is implemented as a dmaengine client that smooths over
the details of different hardware offload engine implementations.  Code
that is written to the api can optimize for asynchronous operation and the
api will fit the chain of operations to the available offload resources. 
 
	I imagine that any piece of ADMA hardware would register with the
	'async_*' subsystem, and a call to async_X would be routed as
	appropriate, or be run in-line. - Neil Brown

async_tx exploits the capabilities of struct dma_async_tx_descriptor to
provide an api of the following general format:

struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *
async_<operation>(..., struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *depend_tx,
			dma_async_tx_callback cb_fn, void *cb_param)
{
	struct dma_chan *chan = async_tx_find_channel(depend_tx, <operation>);
	struct dma_device *device = chan ? chan->device : NULL;
	int int_en = cb_fn ? 1 : 0;
	struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx = device ?
		device->device_prep_dma_<operation>(chan, len, int_en) : NULL;

	if (tx) { /* run <operation> asynchronously */
		...
		tx->tx_set_dest(addr, tx, index);
		...
		tx->tx_set_src(addr, tx, index);
		...
		async_tx_submit(chan, tx, flags, depend_tx, cb_fn, cb_param);
	} else { /* run <operation> synchronously */
		...
		<operation>
		...
		async_tx_sync_epilog(flags, depend_tx, cb_fn, cb_param);
	}

	return tx;
}

async_tx_find_channel() returns a capable channel from its pool.  The
channel pool is organized as a per-cpu array of channel pointers.  The
async_tx_rebalance() routine is tasked with managing these arrays.  In the
uniprocessor case async_tx_rebalance() tries to spread responsibility
evenly over channels of similar capabilities.  For example if there are two
copy+xor channels, one will handle copy operations and the other will
handle xor.  In the SMP case async_tx_rebalance() attempts to spread the
operations evenly over the cpus, e.g. cpu0 gets copy channel0 and xor
channel0 while cpu1 gets copy channel 1 and xor channel 1.  When a
dependency is specified async_tx_find_channel defaults to keeping the
operation on the same channel.  A xor->copy->xor chain will stay on one
channel if it supports both operation types, otherwise the transaction will
transition between a copy and a xor resource.

Currently the raid5 implementation in the MD raid456 driver has been
converted to the async_tx api.  A driver for the offload engines on the
Intel Xscale series of I/O processors, iop-adma, is provided in a later
commit.  With the iop-adma driver and async_tx, raid456 is able to offload
copy, xor, and xor-zero-sum operations to hardware engines.
 
On iop342 tiobench showed higher throughput for sequential writes (20 - 30%
improvement) and sequential reads to a degraded array (40 - 55%
improvement).  For the other cases performance was roughly equal, +/- a few
percentage points.  On a x86-smp platform the performance of the async_tx
implementation (in synchronous mode) was also +/- a few percentage points
of the original implementation.  According to 'top' on iop342 CPU
utilization drops from ~50% to ~15% during a 'resync' while the speed
according to /proc/mdstat doubles from ~25 MB/s to ~50 MB/s.
 
The tiobench command line used for testing was: tiobench --size 2048
--block 4096 --block 131072 --dir /mnt/raid --numruns 5
* iop342 had 1GB of memory available

Details:
* if CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE=n the asynchronous path is compiled away by making
  async_tx_find_channel a static inline routine that always returns NULL
* when a callback is specified for a given transaction an interrupt will
  fire at operation completion time and the callback will occur in a
  tasklet.  if the the channel does not support interrupts then a live
  polling wait will be performed
* the api is written as a dmaengine client that requests all available
  channels
* In support of dependencies the api implicitly schedules channel-switch
  interrupts.  The interrupt triggers the cleanup tasklet which causes
  pending operations to be scheduled on the next channel
* Xor engines treat an xor destination address differently than a software
  xor routine.  To the software routine the destination address is an implied
  source, whereas engines treat it as a write-only destination.  This patch
  modifies the xor_blocks routine to take a an explicit destination address
  to mirror the hardware.

Changelog:
* fixed a leftover debug print
* don't allow callbacks in async_interrupt_cond
* fixed xor_block changes
* fixed usage of ASYNC_TX_XOR_DROP_DEST
* drop dma mapping methods, suggested by Chris Leech
* printk warning fixups from Andrew Morton
* don't use inline in C files, Adrian Bunk
* select the API when MD is enabled
* BUG_ON xor source counts <= 1
* implicitly handle hardware concerns like channel switching and
  interrupts, Neil Brown
* remove the per operation type list, and distribute operation capabilities
  evenly amongst the available channels
* simplify async_tx_find_channel to optimize the fast path
* introduce the channel_table_initialized flag to prevent early calls to
  the api
* reorganize the code to mimic crypto
* include mm.h as not all archs include it in dma-mapping.h
* make the Kconfig options non-user visible, Adrian Bunk
* move async_tx under crypto since it is meant as 'core' functionality, and
  the two may share algorithms in the future
* move large inline functions into c files
* checkpatch.pl fixes
* gpl v2 only correction

Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-By: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2007-07-13 08:06:14 -07:00