Re: Pull request: DMA pool updates

From: mark gross
Date: Mon Feb 04 2008 - 12:51:53 EST


On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 05:11:47PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> G'day Linus, mate
>
> Could you pull the dmapool branch of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc.git please?
>
> All the patches have been posted to linux-kernel before, and various
> comments (and acks) have been taken into account.
>
> It's a fairly nice performance improvement, so would be good to get in.
> It's survived a few hours of *mumble* high-stress database benchmark,
> so I have high confidence in its stability.

I haven't looked at this yet but, I've been doing some work with the
IOMMU performance impacts on DMA operations. DMApooling could provide
a way to mitigate some of the spankage gotten when using IOMMU's.

--mgross

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