Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Jun 2013 18:20:24 -0500 | Subject | Block layer / MMC: Order of segments in SG-list | From | Joel A Fernandes <> |
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Hi, So I tried dumping addresses of an SG list in omap_hsmmc driver before it is passed to DMA.
I found some interesting traces occasionally such as the below SG list of length 4.
[ 6.758716] (0) length=4096, sg virt addr=c1318000, sg phy addr=81318000 [ 6.765863] (1) length=4096, sg virt addr=c1317000, sg phy addr=81317000 [ 6.773011] (2) length=4096, sg virt addr=c1316000, sg phy addr=81316000 [ 6.780087] (3) length=4096, sg virt addr=c1315000, sg phy addr=81315000
What is interesting is these chunks are really physically contiguous but in reverse order in the list. I think a smarter ordering can actually improve through put considerably and save precious DMA resources by not having to allocate slots for parts of contiguous chunk of physical memory.
Is there any particular reason why this might be the case? I traced to find that the SG list is actually prepared by mmc_queue_map_sg -> blk_rq_map_sg
Thanks in advance on any insight on the above.
Regards, Joel
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