Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] ioat: DMA engine support

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Andi Kleen wrote:
Longer term the right way to handle this would be likely to use
POSIX AIO on sockets. With that interface it would be easier
to keep long queues of data in flight, which would be best for
the DMA engine.

Agreed.

For my own userland projects, I'm starting to feel the need for network AIO, since it is more natural: the hardware operations themselves are asynchronous.


In addition to helping speed up network RX, I would like to see how possible it is to experiment with IOAT uses outside of networking. Sample ideas: VM page pre-zeroing. ATA PIO data xfers (async copy to static buffer, to dramatically shorten length of kmap+irqsave time). Extremely large memcpy() calls.


Another proposal was swiotlb.

That's an interesting thought.


But it's not clear it's a good idea: a lot of these applications prefer to have the target in cache. And IOAT will force it out of cache.


Additionally, current IOAT is memory->memory. I would love to be able to convince Intel to add transforms and checksums, to enable offload of memory->transform->memory and memory->checksum->result operations like sha-{1,256} hashing[1], crc32*, aes crypto, and other highly common operations. All of that could be made async.


I remember the registers in the Amiga Blitter for this and I'm
still scared... Maybe it's better to keep it simple.

We're talking about CISC here!  ;-) ;-)

[note: I'm the type of person who would stuff the kernel + glibc onto an FPGA, if I could]

I would love to see Intel, AMD, VIA (others?) compete by adding selected transforms/checksums/hashs to their chips, though this method. Just provide a method to enumerate what transforms are supported on <this> chip...

	Jeff


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