On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 8:49 AM Thomas HellstrÃm (VMware)
<thomas_os@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 9/4/19 1:15 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:Just a quick comment on this: It's the repeated (per-pfn/pte) lookup
But, reading this, I have more questions:It looks like that, although there are comments in the code about
Canât you get rid of cvma by using vmf_insert_pfn_prot()?
serious performance problems using VM_PFNMAP / vmf_insert_pfn() with
write-combining and PAT, so that would require some serious testing with
hardware I don't have. But I guess there is definitely room for
improvement here. Ideally we'd like to be able to change the
vma->vm_page_prot within fault(). But we can
of the PAT tables, which are dead slow. If you have a struct
io_mapping then that can be done once, and then just blindly inserted.
See remap_io_mapping in i915.
-Daniel