Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932317Ab3D2UqV (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:46:21 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f169.google.com ([209.85.220.169]:56031 "EHLO mail-vc0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759187Ab3D2UqU (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:46:20 -0400 Message-ID: <517EDC19.7020705@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:46:17 -0400 From: KOSAKI Motohiro User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: vinayakm.list@gmail.com CC: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, rientjes@google.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add an option to disable bounce References: <1366644180-6140-1-git-send-email-vinayakm.list@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1366644180-6140-1-git-send-email-vinayakm.list@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1494 Lines: 47 (4/22/13 11:23 AM), vinayakm.list@gmail.com wrote: > From: Vinayak Menon > > There are times when HIGHMEM is enabled, but > we don't prefer CONFIG_BOUNCE to be enabled. > CONFIG_BOUNCE can reduce the block device > throughput, and this is not ideal for machines > where we don't gain much by enabling it. So > provide an option to deselect CONFIG_BOUNCE. The > observation was made while measuring eMMC throughput > using iozone on an ARM device with 1GB RAM. > > Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon > --- > mm/Kconfig | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig > index 3bea74f..29f9736 100644 > --- a/mm/Kconfig > +++ b/mm/Kconfig > @@ -263,8 +263,14 @@ config ZONE_DMA_FLAG > default "1" > > config BOUNCE > + bool "Enable bounce buffers" > def_bool y > depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM) > + help > + Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access > + the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled > + by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGMEM is selected, but you > + may say n to override this. This should depend on CONFIG_EXPERT. Because this makes typically worse result on typical desktop machine. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/