[PATCH] ppc32/64: Map prefetchable PCI without guarded bit
Segher Boessenkool
segher at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Mar 25 05:20:43 EST 2005
> While experimenting with framebuffer access performances, we noticed a
> very significant improvement in write access to it when not setting
> the "guarded" bit on the MMU mappings. This bit basically says that
> reads and writes won't have side effects (it allows speculation).
Unless the data is already in cache.
> It appears that it also disables write combining.
When the page is also cache-inhibited, it indeed does.
Btw, did you ever get to fix the problem with mapping the last page
of physical address space via /dev/mem ?
Segher
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