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Message-ID: <20080815074033.4817f876@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:40:33 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, airlied@...ux.ie,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] reduce tlb/cache flush times of agpgart memory
allocation
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:31:31 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> * Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com> wrote:
>
> > To reduce tlb/cache flush, makes agp memory allocation do one flush
> > after all pages in a region are changed to uc.
> >
> > All agp drivers except agp-sgi uses agp_generic_alloc_page() for
> > .agp_alloc_page, so the patch should work for them. agp-sgi is only
> > for ia64, so not a problem too.
>
> applied to tip/x86/pat - thanks!
>
> I've Cc:-ed more PAT folks - any objections?
>
it really needs something else instead; it needs airlied's array
allocator
otherwise you hit the second wall as well (the pat checks per page)
in reality an array version of ioremap (or set_pages_X) is what is
needed
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