On 25/08/2021 13:17, Yongji Xie wrote:
JFYI, There was a preliminary discussion to move the iova rcache code
(which the iova fast alloc and free functions are based on) out of the
iova code and maybe into dma-iommu (being the only user). There was
other motivation.

Would it be better to move the code into ./lib as a general library?

For a start we/I think that the rcache could be removed from the IOVA code, but prob should stay in drivers/iommu. I had another IOVA issue to solve, which complicates things. No solid plans. Need to talk to Robin more.


https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/83de3911-145d-77c8-17c1-981e4ff82...@arm.com/

Having more users complicates that...

Do we have some plan for this work? From our test [1],
iova_alloc_fast() is much better than iova_alloc(). So I'd like to use
it as much as possible

[1]https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/cacyct3stexfeg7nrbwpo2j59dpycumzcvm2zcpjave40-ev...@mail.gmail.com/

Well if you're alloc'ing and free'ing IOVAs a lot then I can imagine it is.

Thanks,
John
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