The single largest factor in the overhead of parsing the commands is the
setup of the virtual mapping to provide a continuous block for the batch
buffer. If we keep those vmappings around (against the better judgement
of mm/vmalloc.c, which we offset by handwaving and looking suggestively
at the shrinker) we can dramatically improve the performance of the
parser for small batches (such as media workloads). Furthermore, we can
use the prepare shmem read/write functions to determine  how best we
need to clflush the range (rather than every page of the object).

The impact of caching both src/dst vmaps is +80% on ivb and +140% on byt
for the throughput on small batches. (Caching just the dst vmap and
iterating over the src, doing a page by page copy is roughly 5% slower
on both platforms. That may be an acceptable trade-off to eliminate one
cached vmapping, and we may be able to reduce the per-page copying overhead
further.) For *this* simple test case, the cmdparser is now within a
factor of 2 of ideal performance.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20160818161718.27187-33-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

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