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SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] ioat: DMA engine support
Andi Kleen wrote:

>>Don't forget that there are benefits of not polluting the cache with the
>>traffic for the incoming skbs.
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>Is that a general benefit outside benchmarks? I would expect
>most real programs to actually do something with the data
>- and that usually involves needing it in cache.
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As an example, an NFS server reads some data pages using iSCSI and sends
them using NFS/TCP (or vice versa).

>>In the I/O AT case it might make sense to do a few prefetch()es of the
>>userland data on the return-to-userspace code path.
>>
>>
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>Some prefetches for user space might be a good idea yes
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As long as they can be turned off. Not all usespace applications want to
touch the data immediately.



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