mainline inclusion
from mainline-master
commit 7459775e
category: feature
bugzilla: 173966
CVE: NA

Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7459775e9f658a2d5f3ff9d4d087e86f4d4e5b83

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Using the queue based tx buffer, it is also possible to allocate a
sgl buffer, and use skb_to_sgvec() to convert the skb to the sgvec
in order to support the dma_map_sg() to decreases the overhead of
IOMMU mapping and unmapping.

Firstly, it reduces the number of buffers. For example, a tcp skb
may have a 66-byte header and 3 fragments of 4328, 32768, and 28064
bytes. With this patch, dma_map_sg() will combine them into two
buffers, 66-bytes header and one 65160-bytes fragment by using IOMMU.

Secondly, it reduces the number of dma mapping and unmapping. All the
original 4 buffers are mapped only once rather than 4 times.

The throughput improves above 10% when running single thread of iperf
using TCP when IOMMU is in strict mode.
Suggested-by: NBarry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: NYunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: NGuangbin Huang <huangguangbin2@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: NYongxin Li <liyongxin1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunxin Chen <chenjunxin1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: NZheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com>