Memcpy and DMA transfer become slow when disable IOMMU

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson AGX Orin
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Hi,

I disabled the SMMU as discussed in this forum. (remove iommus = <&smmu TEGRA_SID_PCIE5>; and dma-coherent; from the device tree.)

However, I found not only transfer by dma, but also transfer by memcpy to the device memory where I disable IOMMU is really slow. Before disable IOMMU, memcpy speed was about 2.5GB/s, now it’s only 980MB/s.

Is there any way to avoid this slow performance?

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I will forwarded this issue to internal team to see if can have some suggestions, Thanks

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Hello kayccc,

Is there any new updates? I have been waiting for long time.

Best regard,
Ezra

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I have the same issue but on the Jetson AGX Orin. I disabled the SMMU for one of the PCIe controllers and now when we are doing DMA over PCIe, the performance is much worse. Nvidia please help!