[PATCH] [RFC] drivers: dma-coherent: use MEMREMAP_WB instead of MEMREMAP_WC

From: Jaewon Kim
Date: Wed Nov 09 2016 - 04:11:39 EST


Commit 6b03ae0d42bf (drivers: dma-coherent: use MEMREMAP_WC for DMA_MEMORY_MA)
added MEMREMAP_WC for DMA_MEMORY_MAP. If, however, CPU cache can be used on
DMA_MEMORY_MAP, I think MEMREMAP_WC can be changed to MEMREMAP_WB. On my local
ARM device, memset in dma_alloc_from_coherent sometimes takes much longer with
MEMREMAP_WC compared to MEMREMAP_WB.

Test results on AArch64 by allocating 4MB with putting trace_printk right
before and after memset.
MEMREMAP_WC : 11.0ms, 5.7ms, 4.2ms, 4.9ms, 5.4ms, 4.3ms, 3.5ms
MEMREMAP_WB : 0.7ms, 0.6ms, 0.6ms, 0.6ms, 0.6ms, 0.5ms, 0.4 ms

Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/dma-coherent.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/dma-coherent.c b/drivers/base/dma-coherent.c
index 640a7e6..0512a1d 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dma-coherent.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dma-coherent.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ static bool dma_init_coherent_memory(
goto out;

if (flags & DMA_MEMORY_MAP)
- mem_base = memremap(phys_addr, size, MEMREMAP_WC);
+ mem_base = memremap(phys_addr, size, MEMREMAP_WB);
else
mem_base = ioremap(phys_addr, size);
if (!mem_base)
--
1.9.1