Messages in this thread | | | From | Leonid Yegoshin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] mm/highmem: make kmap cache coloring aware | Date | Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:37:52 +0000 |
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16KB page size solution may sometime be a solution:
1) in microcontroller environment then small pages have advantage in small applications world.
2) some kernel drivers may not fit well a different page size, especially if HW has an embedded memory translation: GPU, video/audio decoders, supplement accelerators.
3) finally, somebody can increase cache size faster than page size, this race never finishes.
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 05:11:37AM +0400, Max Filippov wrote:
> this series adds mapping color control to the generic kmap code, allowing > architectures with aliasing VIPT cache to use high memory. There's also > use example of this new interface by xtensa.
I haven't actually ported this to MIPS but it certainly appears to be the right framework to get highmem aliases handled on MIPS, too.
Though I still consider increasing PAGE_SIZE to 16k the preferable solution because it will entirly do away with cache aliases.
Thanks,
Ralf
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