linux-kernel - Re: io resources and cached mappings (was: [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1)

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Date:	Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:39:10 -0700
From:	Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	keithp@...thp.com, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: io resources and cached mappings (was: [git pull] drm patches
	for 2.6.27-rc1)

On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 10:05 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Any ballpark-figure numbers you can share with us?

For one quake-3 based game we use for performance regression checking,
64-bit kernels run about 18 times faster now. That's the difference
between using a zero-cost dynamic mapping and using ioremap_wc for each
page.

-- 
keith.packard@...el.com

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