tree eb4f5bfbd1b5f937685c1f980ca83fc21c377fea
parent 0255f543d9888fb5c5fbcd265ca2eee2d6ecff6a
author mark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> 1204672928 -0800
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 1208753227 -0700

PCI: iommu: iotlb flushing

This patch is for batching up the flushing of the IOTLB for the DMAR
implementation found in the Intel VT-d hardware.  It works by building a list
of to be flushed IOTLB entries and a bitmap list of which DMAR engine they are
from.

After either a high water mark (250 accessible via debugfs) or 10ms the list
of iova's will be reclaimed and the DMAR engines associated are IOTLB-flushed.

This approach recovers 15 to 20% of the performance lost when using the IOMMU
for my netperf udp stream benchmark with small packets.  It can be disabled
with a kernel boot parameter "intel_iommu=strict".

Its use does weaken the IOMMU protections a bit.

Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>