Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jun 2023 07:12:38 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] swiotlb: Fix a couple of bugs in sizing areas |
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 04:07:25PM +0200, Petr Tesařík wrote: > As an aside (and not directly related to the bugfixes themselves), I > wonder why the area size cannot be always equal to IO_TLB_SEGSIZE. Of > course, we would (usually) end up with more areas, but that should be > a good thing, shouldn't it? The area structure is quite small, so it > cannot be because of memory consumption concerns. The overhead of > taking an uncontended spinlock should also be negligible.
What would be the benefit of this?
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