Re: [PATCH 00/16] IB/hfi1: Add a page pinning cache for PSM sdma

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On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Dennis Dalessandro
<dennis.dalessandro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 05:53:37PM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:

>> The cache comes to amortize the cost of pin/unpin and such, correct? this means
>> that over longs runs, if there's nice locality of the same process
>> using the same pages, you pay the register/pin cost once, later use lazy
>> de-registration/pinning, and only do that
>> when MMU notifier tells you this is a must, or under some eviction policy.

>> Since the cost is amortized, the system calls over-head should be negligible
>> (also, the same system call can be used to evict X and register Y), do you
>> have performance data that shows otherwise?

> I don't personally have the data but will check with some folks here.

Dennis, didn't see a reply from you here...

Doug, as this is still review discussion in progress, I guess you'll wait with
finalizing the talks before adding this into your 2nd 4.6 pull request?

Or.
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