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From: will.deacon@arm•com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/3] iommu/io-pgtable: Avoid redundant TLB syncs
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 14:21:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160210142112.GK1052@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81a5e784494a04713e152659c95b34e92d944f32.1453723096.git.robin.murphy@arm.com>

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 05:13:15PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
> In certain unmapping situations it is quite possible to end up issuing
> back-to-back TLB synchronisations, which at best is a waste of time and
> effort, and at worst causes some hardware to get rather confused. Whilst
> the pagetable implementations, or the IOMMU drivers, or both, could keep
> track of things to avoid this happening, it seems to make the most sense
> to prevent code duplication and add some simple state tracking in the
> common interface between the two.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard•com>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm•com>
> ---
>  drivers/iommu/io-pgtable.h | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm•com>

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-10 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-26 17:13 [PATCH v3 0/3] io-pgtable ARM short descriptor format Robin Murphy
2016-01-26 17:13 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] iommu/io-pgtable: Add ARMv7 short descriptor support Robin Murphy
2016-01-27  1:16   ` Yong Wu
2016-01-28 13:41     ` Robin Murphy
2016-02-17 14:31       ` Will Deacon
2016-02-17 14:34         ` Robin Murphy
2016-02-10 15:48   ` Will Deacon
2016-02-11 16:13     ` [PATCH 4/3] iommu/io-pgtable: Rationalise quirk handling Robin Murphy
2016-02-11 20:39       ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-02-12 12:08       ` Will Deacon
2016-02-12 12:32         ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-02-12 15:23           ` Robin Murphy
2016-02-12 15:55             ` Will Deacon
2016-03-01 12:01   ` [PATCH v3 1/3] iommu/io-pgtable: Add ARMv7 short descriptor support Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-03-01 13:13     ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-03-01 13:51     ` Robin Murphy
2016-01-26 17:13 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] iommu/io-pgtable: Add helper functions for TLB ops Robin Murphy
2016-01-26 17:13 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] iommu/io-pgtable: Avoid redundant TLB syncs Robin Murphy
2016-02-10 14:21   ` Will Deacon [this message]
2016-02-12 17:09 ` [PATCH v2] iommu/io-pgtable: Rationalise quirk handling Robin Murphy
2016-02-12 17:24   ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-02-12 17:25     ` Robin Murphy
2016-02-12 17:27   ` Will Deacon

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