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authorThomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>2021-06-02 11:38:11 +0300
committerThomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>2021-06-07 17:07:08 +0300
commitb7e32bef4ae5f9149276203564b7911fac466588 (patch)
treeb8752329b4d43041fe4837a322cf684513bd697d /Documentation/gpu
parent3bf3710e3718a5aebdf465343bc1125b6e8cca96 (diff)
downloadlinux-b7e32bef4ae5f9149276203564b7911fac466588.tar.xz
drm: Add a prefetching memcpy_from_wc
Reading out of write-combining mapped memory is typically very slow since the CPU doesn't prefetch. However some archs have special instructions to do this. So add a best-effort memcpy_from_wc taking dma-buf-map pointer arguments that attempts to use a fast prefetching memcpy and otherwise falls back to ordinary memcopies, taking the iomem tagging into account. The code is largely copied from i915_memcpy_from_wc. Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Suggested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210602083818.241793-5-thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210602083818.241793-5-thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst4
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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst
index 21be6deadc12..d5a73fa2c9ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst
@@ -469,8 +469,8 @@ DRM MM Range Allocator Function References
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c
:export:
-DRM Cache Handling
-==================
+DRM Cache Handling and Fast WC memcpy()
+=======================================
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cache.c
:export: