Messages in this thread | | | From | Dan Williams <> | Date | Mon, 17 Jun 2019 23:44:34 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] resource: find_next_iomem_res() improvements |
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 9:59 PM Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> wrote: > > Running some microbenchmarks on dax keeps showing find_next_iomem_res() > as a place in which significant amount of time is spent. It appears that > in order to determine the cacheability that is required for the PTE, > lookup_memtype() is called, and this one traverses the resources list in > an inefficient manner. This patch-set tries to improve this situation.
Let's just do this lookup once per device, cache that, and replay it to modified vmf_insert_* routines that trust the caller to already know the pgprot_values.
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