Re: [PATCH kernel v12 27/34] powerpc/powernv: Implement multilevel TCE tables

2015-06-08 Thread David Gibson
On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 04:35:19PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > TCE tables might get too big in case of 4K IOMMU pages and DDW enabled > on huge guests (hundreds of GB of RAM) so the kernel might be unable to > allocate contiguous chunk of physical memory to store the TCE table. > > To add

[PATCH kernel v12 27/34] powerpc/powernv: Implement multilevel TCE tables

2015-06-05 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
TCE tables might get too big in case of 4K IOMMU pages and DDW enabled on huge guests (hundreds of GB of RAM) so the kernel might be unable to allocate contiguous chunk of physical memory to store the TCE table. To address this, POWER8 CPU (actually, IODA2) supports multi-level TCE tables, up to 5