Re: io resources and cached mappings (was: [git pull] drm patchesfor 2.6.27-rc1)
From: Keith Packard
Date: Mon Oct 20 2008 - 19:57:05 EST
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 13:58 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> yes but note that by caching the whole mapping on 64-bit we get
> everything we want: trivially lockless, works from any CPU, can be
> preempted at will, and there are no ugly INVLPG flushes anywhere.
I was assuming that on 64-bit, the map would be created at driver init
time and be left in place until the driver closed; if that's what you
mean by 'caching', then yes, we should cache the map.
> 32-bit we should handle as well but not design for it.
As long as we get kmap_atomic-like performance, and we get to simplify
our code, I'm up for it.
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