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Jason Cai (Xiang Feng) 356e88ebe4 vfio/type1: Improve memory pinning process for raw PFN mapping
When using vfio to pass through a PCIe device (e.g. a GPU card) that
has a huge BAR (e.g. 16GB), a lot of cycles are wasted on memory
pinning because PFNs of PCI BAR are not backed by struct page, and
the corresponding VMA has flag VM_PFNMAP.

With this change, when pinning a region which is a raw PFN mapping,
it can skip unnecessary user memory pinning process, and thus, can
significantly improve VM's boot up time when passing through devices
via VFIO. In my test on a Xeon E5 2.6GHz, the time mapping a 16GB
BAR was reduced from about 0.4s to 1.5us.

Signed-off-by: Jason Cai (Xiang Feng) <jason.cai@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2018-03-22 13:18:27 -06:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-18 12:03:15 -07:00
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Makefile Linux 4.16-rc6 2018-03-18 17:48:42 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.