On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 12:54 AM, Benjamin Serebrin via iommu
wrote:
>> +/*
>> + * Magazine caches for IOVA ranges. For an introduction to magazines,
>> + * see the USENIX 2001 paper "Magazines and Vmem: Extending the Slab
>> + * Allocator to Many CPUs and Arbitrary Resources" by Bonwick and Ada
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Adam Morrison wrote:
> From: Omer Peleg
>
> This patch introduces global and per-CPU caches of IOVAs, so that
> CPUs can usually allocate IOVAs without taking the rbtree spinlock
> to do so. The caching is based on magazines, as described in "Magazines
> and Vmem
From: Omer Peleg
This patch introduces global and per-CPU caches of IOVAs, so that
CPUs can usually allocate IOVAs without taking the rbtree spinlock
to do so. The caching is based on magazines, as described in "Magazines
and Vmem: Extending the Slab Allocator to Many CPUs and Arbitrary
Resource
