From: Thomas Hellstrom Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:41:32 +0000 (+0100) Subject: drm/ttm: Work around performance regression with VM_PFNMAP X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0e6d6ec02f867fe8d1f785312b7343b21052322f;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2FG12%2Fandroid_kernel_amlogic_linux-4.9.git drm/ttm: Work around performance regression with VM_PFNMAP A performance regression was introduced in TTM in linux 3.13 when we started using VM_PFNMAP for shared mappings. In theory this should've been faster due to less page book-keeping but it appears like VM_PFNMAP + x86 PAT + write-combine is a particularly cpu-hungry combination, as seen by largely increased cpu-usage on r200 GL video playback. Until we've sorted out why, revert to always use VM_MIXEDMAP. Reference: freedesktop.org bugzilla bug #75719 Reported-and-tested-by: Acked-by: Alex Deucher Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_vm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_vm.c index 801231c9ae48..0ce48e5a9cb4 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_vm.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_vm.c @@ -339,11 +339,13 @@ int ttm_bo_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma, vma->vm_private_data = bo; /* - * PFNMAP is faster than MIXEDMAP due to reduced page - * administration. So use MIXEDMAP only if private VMA, where - * we need to support COW. + * We'd like to use VM_PFNMAP on shared mappings, where + * (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) != 0, for performance reasons, + * but for some reason VM_PFNMAP + x86 PAT + write-combine is very + * bad for performance. Until that has been sorted out, use + * VM_MIXEDMAP on all mappings. See freedesktop.org bug #75719 */ - vma->vm_flags |= (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) ? VM_PFNMAP : VM_MIXEDMAP; + vma->vm_flags |= VM_MIXEDMAP; vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP; return 0; out_unref: @@ -359,7 +361,7 @@ int ttm_fbdev_mmap(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct ttm_buffer_object *bo) vma->vm_ops = &ttm_bo_vm_ops; vma->vm_private_data = ttm_bo_reference(bo); - vma->vm_flags |= (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) ? VM_PFNMAP : VM_MIXEDMAP; + vma->vm_flags |= VM_MIXEDMAP; vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO | VM_DONTEXPAND; return 0; }