Re: [PATCH 09/15] swiotlb: make the swiotlb_init interface more useful

Christoph Hellwig
2022-06-01T17:57:58Z

On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 10:46:54AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 07:34:41PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Can you send me the full dmesg and the content of
> > /sys/kernel/debug/swiotlb/io_tlb_nslabs for a good and a bad boot?
>
> Sure thing, they are attached! If there is anything else I can provide
> or test, I am more than happy to do so.

Nothing interesting. But the performance numbers almost look like
swiotlb=force got ignored before (even if I can't explain why).
Do you get a similar performance with the new kernel without
swiotlb=force as the old one with that argument by any chance?