linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: add an option to disable bounce

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Message-ID: <517EDC19.7020705@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:46:17 -0400
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>
To:	vinayakm.list@...il.com
CC:	linux-mm@...ck.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rientjes@...gle.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kosaki.motohiro@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add an option to disable bounce

(4/22/13 11:23 AM), vinayakm.list@...il.com wrote:
> From: Vinayak Menon <vinayakm.list@...il.com>
> 
> There are times when HIGHMEM is enabled, but
> we don't prefer CONFIG_BOUNCE to be enabled.
> CONFIG_BOUNCE can reduce the block device
> throughput, and this is not ideal for machines
> where we don't gain much by enabling it. So
> provide an option to deselect CONFIG_BOUNCE. The
> observation was made while measuring eMMC throughput
> using iozone on an ARM device with 1GB RAM.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinayakm.list@...il.com>
> ---
>  mm/Kconfig |    6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> index 3bea74f..29f9736 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -263,8 +263,14 @@ config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
>  	default "1"
>  
>  config BOUNCE
> +	bool "Enable bounce buffers"
>  	def_bool y
>  	depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
> +	help
> +	  Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access
> +	  the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled
> +	  by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGMEM is selected, but you
> +	  may say n to override this.

This should depend on CONFIG_EXPERT. Because this makes typically worse result
on typical desktop machine.






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