From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet DMA coalescing
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:25:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610111125.10902.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <452C4CE0.5010607@am.sony.com>
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 03:46, Geoff Levand wrote:
> >=20
> > The others look good, but this one complicates the code and doesn't hav=
e any benefit. =C2=A020=20
> > for 21 isn't bad.
>=20
> Is the motivation for this change to improve performance by reducing the =
overhead
> of the mapping calls? =C2=A0If so, there may be some benefit for some sys=
tems. =C2=A0Could
> you please elaborate?
>=20
=46rom what I understand, this patch drastically reduces the number of
I/O PTEs that are needed in the iommu. With the current static IOMMU
mapping, it should only make a difference during initialization, but
any platform that uses a dynamic mapping of iommu entries will benefit
a lot from it, because:
=2D the card can do better prefetching of consecutive memory
=2D there are more I/O ptes available for other drivers.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-11 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-10 20:49 [PATCH 0/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet bugfixes, etc Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 20:56 ` [PATCH 1/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethtool -i version number info Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 20:57 ` [PATCH 2/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet burst alignment patch Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 20:59 ` [PATCH 3/21]: Spidernet module parm permissions Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:00 ` [PATCH 4/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet force-end fix Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:00 ` [PATCH 0/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet bugfixes, etc Andrew Morton
2006-10-10 21:01 ` [PATCH 5/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet zlen min packet length Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:01 ` [PATCH 6/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet add missing netdev watchdog Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:02 ` [PATCH 7/21]: Spidernet fix register field definitions Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:04 ` [PATCH 8/21]: Spidernet stop queue when queue is full Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:05 ` [PATCH 9/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet bogus rx interrupt bit Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:06 ` [PATCH 10/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet fix error interrupt print Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:08 ` [PATCH 11/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet stop error printing patch Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:09 ` [PATCH 12/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet incorrect offset Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:11 ` [PATCH 13/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet low watermark patch Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 14/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet NAPI polling info Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:14 ` [PATCH 15/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet refine locking Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:15 ` [PATCH 16/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:18 ` [PATCH 17/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet reduce DMA kicking Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:19 ` [PATCH 18/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet variable name change Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:21 ` [PATCH 19/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet DMA direction fix Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:22 ` [PATCH 20/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet release all descrs Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 21:23 ` [PATCH 21/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet DMA coalescing Linas Vepstas
2006-10-10 23:20 ` jschopp
2006-10-11 1:46 ` Geoff Levand
2006-10-11 9:25 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2006-10-11 15:20 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-10-11 15:47 ` Geoff Levand
2006-10-11 22:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-11 7:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-14 2:12 ` Joel Schopp
2006-10-11 16:02 ` [PATCH 0/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet bugfixes, etc Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-11 16:42 ` James K Lewis
2006-10-11 21:06 ` James K Lewis
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