On 2021-08-02 16:23, John Garry wrote:
On 02/08/2021 16:01, Will Deacon wrote:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 06:36:39PM +0800, John Garry wrote:
Some LLDs may request DMA mappings whose IOVA length exceeds that of the
current rcache upper limit.
What's an LLD?
low-level driver
maybe I'll stick
On 02/08/2021 16:01, Will Deacon wrote:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 06:36:39PM +0800, John Garry wrote:
Some LLDs may request DMA mappings whose IOVA length exceeds that of the
current rcache upper limit.
What's an LLD?
low-level driver
maybe I'll stick with simply "drivers"
This means that
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 06:36:39PM +0800, John Garry wrote:
> Some LLDs may request DMA mappings whose IOVA length exceeds that of the
> current rcache upper limit.
What's an LLD?
> This means that allocations for those IOVAs will never be cached, and
> always must be allocated and freed from the
Some LLDs may request DMA mappings whose IOVA length exceeds that of the
current rcache upper limit.
This means that allocations for those IOVAs will never be cached, and
always must be allocated and freed from the RB tree per DMA mapping cycle.
This has a significant effect on performance, more s
