From: Sowmini Varadhan sowmini.varad...@oracle.com
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 15:33:29 -0400
Investigation of network performance on Sparc shows a high
degree of locking contention in the IOMMU allocator, and it
was noticed that the PowerPC code has a better locking model.
This patch series
From: Sowmini Varadhan sowmini.varad...@oracle.com
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 15:33:29 -0400
v10: resend patchv9 without RFC tag, and a new mail Message-Id,
(previous non-RFC attempt did not show up on the patchwork queue?)
Yes, if the patch is identical the patch postings hashes to the same
value
Investigation of network performance on Sparc shows a high
degree of locking contention in the IOMMU allocator, and it
was noticed that the PowerPC code has a better locking model.
This patch series tries to extract the generic parts of the
PowerPC code so that it can be shared across multiple
