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The cached node mechanism provides a significant performance benefit for allocations using a 32-bit DMA mask, but in the case of non-PCI devices or where the 32-bit space is full, the loss of this benefit can be significant - on large systems there can be many thousands of entries in the tree, such that walking all the way down to find free space every time becomes increasingly awful. Maintain a similar cached node for the whole IOVA space as a superset of the 32-bit space so that performance can remain much more consistent. Inspired by work by Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>. Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Tested-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> Tested-by: Nate Watterson <nwatters@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.