RE: [RFC v2 PATCH 6/7] dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Use tasklet_hi_schedule for timing critical usecase

From: Radhey Shyam Pandey
Date: Fri Jun 11 2021 - 14:30:34 EST


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> Subject: Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 6/7] dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Use
> tasklet_hi_schedule for timing critical usecase
>
> On 4/9/21 7:56 PM, Radhey Shyam Pandey wrote:
> > Schedule tasklet with high priority to ensure that callback processing
> > is prioritized. It improves throughput for netdev dma clients.
> Do you have specific numbers on the throughput improvement?
IIRC there was ~5% performance improvement but I did that a long back
on an older kernel 4.8 and after that onward I always checked overall
performance (having all optimization applied). In next version i will
redo incremental profiling and capture improvement % in the commit
description.

Thanks,
Radhey