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On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 08:36:33PM +0100, Andrew Grillet wrote:
> So, substitute opening and closing the connection to the network?
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> Is the IOMMU not used for disk (and all SCSI) access also?
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> On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 at 20:32, Theo de Raadt wrote:
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> > Andrew Gri
So, substitute opening and closing the connection to the network?
Is the IOMMU not used for disk (and all SCSI) access also?
On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 at 20:32, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Andrew Grillet wrote:
>
> > Ok, what I am proposing is that the IOMMU is set up when a file is opened
> > to provi
Andrew Grillet wrote:
> Ok, what I am proposing is that the IOMMU is set up when a file is opened
> to provide the address space required for that file's IO.
Wow, you keep saying file as if it means something.
packets off the network are not associated with any specific "file"
activity
it isn'
Ok, what I am proposing is that the IOMMU is set up when a file is opened
to provide the address space required for that file's IO.
This remains set up until the file is closed, avoiding frequent set-up and
tear-down for each IO transfer.
I assume that there is sufficient IOMMU address space to ha
In this case, what do mbufs have to do with files?
I am very confused.
> I was assuming that the main objection to allocating mbufs for duration of
> file open,
> rather than allocating per transfer, this could result in a much higher
> number of mbufs
> being in use concurrently. I cannot see an
I was assuming that the main objection to allocating mbufs for duration of
file open,
rather than allocating per transfer, this could result in a much higher
number of mbufs
being in use concurrently. I cannot see any other downside (which may be
due to my
not understanding a lot of stuff - I last
Andrew Grillet wrote:
> These days we are not so short of memory - would it not be possible to
> allocate an mbuf (or two for double-buffered) for each file
> when opened, and free when closed?
What does this have to do with files??
These days we are not so short of memory - would it not be possible to
allocate an mbuf (or two for double-buffered) for each file
when opened, and free when closed?
I can see the management might be more complex, but the performance
benefits might be considerable.
Also, for VM disk access (ldom o
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 02:44:29AM +, Joseph Mayer wrote:
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> Last iteration from me on this one.
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> Why is this not a problem on some other architectures?
It is a problem, it's just that other archs don't have an iommu like
sparc64.
> I'd have thought DMA and hardware being assigned trans
On Saturday, October 20, 2018 10:14 AM, David Gwynne wrote:
> > On 20 Oct 2018, at 11:56 am, Joseph Mayer joseph.ma...@protonmail.com wrote:
> > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
> > On Friday, October 19, 2018 5:15 PM, Mark Kettenis mark.kette...@xs4all.nl
> > wrote:
> >
> > > > Date: Fri, 19 Oc
> On 20 Oct 2018, at 11:56 am, Joseph Mayer wrote:
>
> ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
> On Friday, October 19, 2018 5:15 PM, Mark Kettenis
> wrote:
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>>> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:22:30 +1000
>>> From: David Gwynne da...@gwynne.id.au
>>> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:09:59PM +1000, David Gwy
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
On Friday, October 19, 2018 5:15 PM, Mark Kettenis
wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:22:30 +1000
> > From: David Gwynne da...@gwynne.id.au
> > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:09:59PM +1000, David Gwynne wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 11:03:58AM +1000, Dav
> On 19 Oct 2018, at 9:59 pm, Andrew Grillet wrote:
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> Is the setup and teardown per transfer or when file is opened and closed?
> Or is it set up once per context switch of task?
>
> I am partly interested cos I would like to improve mt one day (as user of
> tape
> and Sparc64 Txxx) if I ge
> On 19 Oct 2018, at 7:15 pm, Mark Kettenis wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:22:30 +1000
>> From: David Gwynne
>>
>> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:09:59PM +1000, David Gwynne wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 11:03:58AM +1000, David Gwynne wrote:
on modern sparc64s (think fire or spa
Is the setup and teardown per transfer or when file is opened and closed?
Or is it set up once per context switch of task?
I am partly interested cos I would like to improve mt one day (as user of
tape
and Sparc64 Txxx) if I get the time.
Andrew
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 10:22, Mark Kettenis wro
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:22:30 +1000
> From: David Gwynne
>
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:09:59PM +1000, David Gwynne wrote:
> > On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 11:03:58AM +1000, David Gwynne wrote:
> > > on modern sparc64s (think fire or sparc enterprise Mx000 boxes),
> > > setting up and tearing down
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:09:59PM +1000, David Gwynne wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 11:03:58AM +1000, David Gwynne wrote:
> > on modern sparc64s (think fire or sparc enterprise Mx000 boxes),
> > setting up and tearing down the translation table entries (TTEs)
> > is very expensive. so expensive
On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 11:03:58AM +1000, David Gwynne wrote:
> on modern sparc64s (think fire or sparc enterprise Mx000 boxes),
> setting up and tearing down the translation table entries (TTEs)
> is very expensive. so expensive that the cost of doing it for disk
> io has a noticable impact on com
on modern sparc64s (think fire or sparc enterprise Mx000 boxes),
setting up and tearing down the translation table entries (TTEs)
is very expensive. so expensive that the cost of doing it for disk
io has a noticable impact on compile times.
now that there's a BUS_DMA_64BIT flag, we can use that to
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