Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:22:09 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: pci-sysfs resource mmap broken (and PATCH) |
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On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:21:19 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> I have a real net big performance improvement on X by doing that > trick ... the sysfs mmap API doesn't really provide a mean to do > it explicitely from userland (unlike the ioctl with the old proc api)
You can refine your test to "if PCI class is display or VGA" and the prefetchability is set in the BAR, then elide the guard PTE protection bit. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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