[PATH V2 4/6] arm: mm: Enable RCU fast_gup

Steve Capper steve.capper at linaro.org
Wed Aug 27 06:01:08 PDT 2014


On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:51:37PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 04:43:30PM +0100, Steve Capper wrote:
> > Activate the RCU fast_gup for ARM. We also need to force THP splits to
> > broadcast an IPI s.t. we block in the fast_gup page walker. As THP
> > splits are comparatively rare, this should not lead to a noticeable
> > performance degradation.
> > 
> > Some pre-requisite functions pud_write and pud_page are also added.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper at linaro.org>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>

Thanks.



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