Re: [PATCH 27/33] dma-direct: use node local allocations for coherent memory

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On 10/01/18 15:30, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:06:22PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
On 10/01/18 08:00, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
To preserve the x86 behavior.

And combined with patch 10/22 of the SWIOTLB refactoring, this means
SWIOTLB allocations will also end up NUMA-aware, right? Great, that's what
we want on arm64 too :)

Well, only for swiotlb allocations that can be satisfied by
dma_direct_alloc.  If we actually have to fall back to the swiotlb
buffers there is not node affinity yet.

Yeah, when I looked into it I reached the conclusion that per-node bounce buffers probably weren't worth it - if you have to bounce you've already pretty much lost the performance game, and if the CPU doing the bouncing happens to be on a different node from the device you've certainly lost either way. Per-node CMA zones we definitely *would* like, but that's a future problem (it looks technically feasible without huge infrastructure changes, but fiddly).

Robin.
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