Regarding Manual cache management with the CPU cache still being enabled

[balaji-ch]

Do we need to call fd = open("/sys/class/u-dma-buf/udmabuf0/sync_for_device", O_WRONLY)) != -1) once before mmap ? or any special care need to be taken for manual cache management ?

[ikwzm]

Thank you for the issue.

Do we need to call fd = open("/sys/class/u-dma-buf/udmabuf0/sync_for_device", O_WRONLY)) != -1) once before mmap ?

there is no need. It's the same whether you open the file before mmap() or after mmap().

or any special care need to be taken for manual cache management ?

Knowledge of general CPU Cache and Linux Kernel is required.

[balaji-ch]

But here in this example https://github.com/ikwzm/ZynqMP-FPGA-Linux-Example-2-UltraZed/blob/master/negative.py udmabuf4.sync_for_device() udmabuf5.sync_for_device() is called in the for loop ?

[ikwzm]

In this example, sync_for_device()/sync_for_cpu() is inside the loop because it runs multiple times to calculate the average time it takes to process it.