PCI: pci-iommu-iotlb-flushing-speedup
The following patch is an update to use an array instead of a list of
IOVA's in the implementation of defered iotlb flushes. It takes
inspiration from sba_iommu.c
I like this implementation better as it encapsulates the batch process
within intel-iommu.c, and no longer touches iova.h (which is shared)
Performance data: Netperf 32byte UDP streaming
2.6.25-rc3-mm1:
IOMMU-strict : 58Mps @ 62% cpu
NO-IOMMU : 71Mbs @ 41% cpu
List-based IOMMU-default-batched-IOTLB flush: 66Mbps @ 57% cpu
with this patch:
IOMMU-strict : 73Mps @ 75% cpu
NO-IOMMU : 74Mbs @ 42% cpu
Array-based IOMMU-default-batched-IOTLB flush: 72Mbps @ 62% cpu
Signed-off-by: <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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