[PATCH v6 5/7] iommu/riscv: Device directory management.

Jason Gunthorpe jgg at ziepe.ca
Tue Jun 11 05:12:19 PDT 2024


On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 07:00:34PM -0700, Tomasz Jeznach wrote:

> For now, I'll change the implementation to assume negative caching for
> DDTE and will follow up with device tree / driver updates to make the
> invalidation optional when revised specifications will be available.

Is there a reason to make it optional? It seems like it doesn't have
any performance downside to just always invalidate, attachment is not
a critical path operation.

I could see making something like negative PTE invalidation optional
as that is more performance path..

Jason



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