linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Add a new flag for ITS device to control indirect route

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Message-ID: <3ce161a7-ee63-a018-4a75-9e7520143d97@arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 1 Dec 2016 09:07:14 +0000
From:   Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
To:     Majun <majun258@...wei.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, robert.moore@...el.com,
        lenb@...nel.org, lv.zheng@...el.com, rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com,
        devel@...ica.org, mark.rutland@....com, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        jason@...edaemon.net
Cc:     dingtianhong@...wei.com, guohanjun@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Add a new flag for ITS device to control indirect
 route

On 01/12/16 07:45, Majun wrote:
> From: MaJun <majun258@...wei.com>
> 
> For current ITS driver, two level table (indirect route) is enabled when the memory used
> for LPI route table over the limit(64KB * 2) size. But this function impact the 
> performance of LPI interrupt actually because need more time to look up the table.

Are you implying that your ITS doesn't have a cache to lookup the most
active devices, hence performing a full lookup on each interrupt?

Anyway, doing this as a DT quirk doesn't feel right. Please use the ITS
quirk infrastructure.

Thanks,

	M.
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