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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 5/6] MIPS: implement architecture-specific 'pci_remap_iospace()'
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    在 2021/12/16 14:18, Arnd Bergmann 写道:
    > On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 3:14 PM Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> wrote:
    >> 在 2021/12/16 13:50, Arnd Bergmann 写道:
    >>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 2:07 PM Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> wrote:
    >>>> 在2021年12月16日十二月 上午11:44,Xi Ruoyao写道:
    >>>> Another way could be keeping a linked list about PIO->PHYS mapping instead of using the single io_port_base variable.
    >>> I think that would add a lot of complexity that isn't needed here. Not
    >>> sure if all MIPS CPUs
    >>> can do it, but the approach used on Arm is what fits in best with the
    >>> PCI drivers, these
    >>> reserve a virtual address range for the ports, and ioremap the
    >>> physical addresses into
    >>> the PIO range according to the mapping.
    >> Yes, the Arm way was my previous approach when introducing PCI IO map
    >> for Loongson.
    >>
    >> It got refactored by this patch as TLB entries are expensive on MIPS,
    >> also the size of IO range doesn't always fits a page.
    > Are PIO accesses common enough that the TLB entry makes a difference?
    > I would imagine that on most systems with a PCI bus, there is not even
    > a single device that exposes an I/O resource, and even on those devices that
    > do, the kernel drivers tend to pick MMIO whenever both are available.

    Actually that was claimed by the author of this patch :-)
    I can understand the point. As he is working on a ramips system utlizes
    1004Kec,
    which has only 32 TLB entries, saving a entry can give considerable
    improvement.

    For Loongson as we have legacy i8042/i8259 which can only be accessed via
    PIO, the access is very common.

    For other systems I guess it's not that common.

    Thanks.


    >
    > Arnd
    - Jiaxun

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