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On some platforms, DMA mapping part of a page is more costly than copying bytes. Indeed, not involving the I/O MMU can help the RPC/RDMA transport scale better for tiny I/Os across more RDMA devices. This is because interaction with the I/O MMU is eliminated for each of these small I/Os. Without the explicit unmapping, the NIC no longer needs to do a costly internal TLB shoot down for buffers that are just a handful of bytes. Since pull-up is now a more a frequent operation, I've introduced a trace point in the pull-up path. It can be used for debugging or user-space tools that count pull-up frequency. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
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.