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[media] media: Fix a UVC performance problem on systems with non-cohe…
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…rent DMA

The UVC driver uses usb_alloc_coherent() to allocate DMA data buffers.
On systems without coherent DMA this ends up allocating buffers in
uncached memory. The subsequent memcpy's done to coalesce the DMA
chunks into contiguous buffers then run VERY slowly. On a MIPS test
system the memcpy is about 200 times slower. This issue prevents the
system from keeping up with 720p YUYV data at 10fps.

The following patch uses kmalloc to alloc the DMA buffers instead of
usb_alloc_coherent on systems without coherent DMA. With this patch
the system was easily able to keep up with 720p at 10fps.

Signed-off-by: Al Cooper <alcooperx@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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Al Cooper authored and Mauro Carvalho Chehab committed Sep 23, 2011
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17 changes: 16 additions & 1 deletion drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_video.c
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Expand Up @@ -790,8 +790,12 @@ static void uvc_free_urb_buffers(struct uvc_streaming *stream)

for (i = 0; i < UVC_URBS; ++i) {
if (stream->urb_buffer[i]) {
#ifndef CONFIG_DMA_NONCOHERENT
usb_free_coherent(stream->dev->udev, stream->urb_size,
stream->urb_buffer[i], stream->urb_dma[i]);
#else
kfree(stream->urb_buffer[i]);
#endif
stream->urb_buffer[i] = NULL;
}
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -831,9 +835,14 @@ static int uvc_alloc_urb_buffers(struct uvc_streaming *stream,
for (; npackets > 1; npackets /= 2) {
for (i = 0; i < UVC_URBS; ++i) {
stream->urb_size = psize * npackets;
#ifndef CONFIG_DMA_NONCOHERENT
stream->urb_buffer[i] = usb_alloc_coherent(
stream->dev->udev, stream->urb_size,
gfp_flags | __GFP_NOWARN, &stream->urb_dma[i]);
#else
stream->urb_buffer[i] =
kmalloc(stream->urb_size, gfp_flags | __GFP_NOWARN);
#endif
if (!stream->urb_buffer[i]) {
uvc_free_urb_buffers(stream);
break;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -908,10 +917,14 @@ static int uvc_init_video_isoc(struct uvc_streaming *stream,
urb->context = stream;
urb->pipe = usb_rcvisocpipe(stream->dev->udev,
ep->desc.bEndpointAddress);
#ifndef CONFIG_DMA_NONCOHERENT
urb->transfer_flags = URB_ISO_ASAP | URB_NO_TRANSFER_DMA_MAP;
urb->transfer_dma = stream->urb_dma[i];
#else
urb->transfer_flags = URB_ISO_ASAP;
#endif
urb->interval = ep->desc.bInterval;
urb->transfer_buffer = stream->urb_buffer[i];
urb->transfer_dma = stream->urb_dma[i];
urb->complete = uvc_video_complete;
urb->number_of_packets = npackets;
urb->transfer_buffer_length = size;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -969,8 +982,10 @@ static int uvc_init_video_bulk(struct uvc_streaming *stream,
usb_fill_bulk_urb(urb, stream->dev->udev, pipe,
stream->urb_buffer[i], size, uvc_video_complete,
stream);
#ifndef CONFIG_DMA_NONCOHERENT
urb->transfer_flags = URB_NO_TRANSFER_DMA_MAP;
urb->transfer_dma = stream->urb_dma[i];
#endif

stream->urb[i] = urb;
}
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