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From: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
To: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
	<damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>, <joro@8bytes.org>,
	<will@kernel.org>, <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
	<martin.petersen@oracle.com>, <hch@lst.de>,
	<m.szyprowski@samsung.com>, <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	<liyihang6@hisilicon.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>, <iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] dma-iommu: Add iommu_dma_opt_mapping_size()
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2022 18:39:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ffc15010-3283-7761-c534-7b226f46d79a@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d7a72f92-15c9-1d58-c711-83c47444094e@acm.org>

On 08/06/2022 18:26, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 6/6/22 02:30, John Garry via iommu wrote:
>> +unsigned long iova_rcache_range(void)
>> +{
>> +    return PAGE_SIZE << (IOVA_RANGE_CACHE_MAX_SIZE - 1);
>> +}
> 
> My understanding is that iova cache entries may be smaller than 
> IOVA_RANGE_CACHE_MAX_SIZE and hence that even if code that uses the DMA 
> mapping API respects this limit that a cache miss can still happen.

Sure, a cache miss may still happen - however once we have stressed the 
system for a while then the rcaches fill up and don't fail often, or 
often enough to be noticeable compared to not having a cached IOVAs at all.

Thanks,
john

  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-08 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-06  9:30 [PATCH v3 0/4] DMA mapping changes for SCSI core John Garry
2022-06-06  9:30 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] dma-mapping: Add dma_opt_mapping_size() John Garry
2022-06-08 17:27   ` Bart Van Assche
2022-06-06  9:30 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] dma-iommu: Add iommu_dma_opt_mapping_size() John Garry
2022-06-08 17:26   ` Bart Van Assche
2022-06-08 17:39     ` John Garry [this message]
2022-06-14 13:12   ` John Garry
2022-06-23  8:38     ` John Garry
2022-06-06  9:30 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] scsi: core: Cap shost max_sectors according to DMA optimum mapping limits John Garry
2022-06-08 17:33   ` Bart Van Assche
2022-06-08 17:50     ` John Garry
2022-06-08 21:07       ` Bart Van Assche
2022-06-09  8:00         ` John Garry
2022-06-09 17:18           ` Bart Van Assche
2022-06-09 17:54             ` John Garry
2022-06-09 20:34               ` Bart Van Assche
2022-06-10 15:37                 ` John Garry
2022-06-23  8:36                   ` John Garry
2022-06-06  9:30 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] libata-scsi: Cap ata_device->max_sectors according to shost->max_sectors John Garry
2022-06-07 22:43 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] DMA mapping changes for SCSI core Bart Van Assche
2022-06-08 10:14   ` John Garry

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