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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/2] iommu/amd: Don't use atomic64_t for domain->pt_root
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> On Jun 26, 2020, at 4:05 AM, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> wrote:
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> a previous discussion pointed out that using atomic64_t for that
> purpose is a bit of overkill. This patch-set replaces it with unsigned
> long and introduces some helpers first to make the change more easy.

BTW, from the previous discussion, Linus mentioned,


The thing is, the 64-bit atomic reads/writes are very expensive on
32-bit x86. If it was just a native pointer, it would be much cheaper
than an "atomic64_t".


However, here we have AMD_IOMMU depend on x86_64, so I am wondering if it makes any sense to run this code on 32-bit x86 at all?
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