[EXT] Re: v4l2 allocated dma memory

Nicolas Dufresne nicolas at ndufresne.ca
Fri Apr 2 12:56:04 UTC 2021


Le vendredi 02 avril 2021 à 01:41 +0000, Bing Song a écrit :
> But dmabuf map/unmap will handle cache flush/invalidate. So v4l2 without an IOMMU can use cacheable buffer in gstreamer. Right?

Cache invalidation is much more complex then this, and this is very partially
implemented in V4L2. So without a system wide coherent memory (without all HW
component supporting CPU and device caches on the fly), using un-cacheable
memory is the only way to go in this short time. This indeed can be improved and
eventually fixed, but discussing this within GStreamer project won't help with
that.

regards,
Nicolas

p.s. Use linux-media mailing list or #v4l2 Freenode channel.


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> Bing
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> Le jeudi 01 avril 2021 à 08:17 +0000, Bing Song a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is v4l2 video decoder output dma memory cacheable or non-cacheable? I 
> > found videoconvert performance is bad with v4l2 video dma buffer 
> > output buffer. Is it possible to use cacheable v4l2 dma memory?
> 
> It's driver decision and the kernel does not provide this information. In general, drivers without an IOMMU (like most of NXP drivers) will use non-cache- able memory allocation which is near unusable by videoconvert (often slower software decode). Most SoC have some converter capability, which can be exposed through an m2m driver and uses with v4l2convert element.
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> > Regards,
> > Bing
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