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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Improve swiotlb performance by using physical addresses
On 10/08/2012 08:43 AM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On 10/06/2012 10:57 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> BTW __pa used to be a simple subtraction, the if () was just added to
>> handle the few call sites for x86-64 that do __pa(&text_symbol).
>> Maybe we should just go back to the old __pa_symbol() for those cases,
>> then __pa could be the simple subtraction it used to was again
>> and it could be inlined and everyone would be happy.
>>
>> -Andi
> What I am probably looking at doing is splitting the function in two as
> you suggest where we have a separate function for the text symbol case.
> I will probably also take the 32 bit approach and add a debug version
> that is still a separate function for uses such as determining if we
> have any callers who should be using __pa_symbol instead of __pa.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex

I gave up on trying to split __pa and __pa_symbol. Yesterday I
realized there is way too much code that depends on the two resolving to
the same function, and many cases are pretty well hidden. Instead I
just mailed out a patch that inlines an optimized version of
__phys_addr. I figure it is probably as good as it is going to get
without having to rip the entire x86 portion of the kernel apart to
separate uses of __pa and __pa_symbol.

Thanks,

Alex


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