On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 08:47:27AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Well, if it's a device driver decision, I guess that's ok.
> > And the primary device driver happens to live in user space in X.org case.
>
> Agreed, but 1) Do you have an idea on how to expose this capability with
> the sysfs interface ? Adding ioctl's to it would suck big time :) and
I don't know enough about VM/TLB stuff to know the right answer.
I suspect the MAP_* attribute/hint needs to be passed in together
with the mmap call if any arch (ia64?) would return a different
virtual address depending the attribute (e.g cached vs uncached).
And write combining might be done in a "layer" below the CPU in
the HW hierarchy. e.g. PCI Host bus controller might combine writes
for some MMIO regions. I don't know if arch specific mmap support
can figure out which HW is the right one to enable write combining
in for a particular MMIO region or PCI device.
I generally don't work with graphics devices and only recently
started poking at infiniband support (128-512MB BAR depending
on card option) to understand really well how BAR is accessed/used.
> 2) It's still nice to have a "workaround" for existing X since the
> performance benefit is significant, but then, it's in arch code, so
> that's fine (and I could indeed limit it to VGA class devices as David
> suggests).
Yup.
thanks,
grant
>
> Ben.
>
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