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    RDMA/core: not to set page dirty bit if it's already set. · 53376fed
    Qing Huang authored
    This change will optimize kernel memory deregistration operations.
    __ib_umem_release() used to call set_page_dirty_lock() against every
    writable page in its memory region. Its purpose is to keep data
    synced between CPU and DMA device when swapping happens after mem
    deregistration ops. Now we choose not to set page dirty bit if it's
    already set by kernel prior to calling __ib_umem_release(). This
    reduces memory deregistration time by half or even more when we ran
    application simulation test program.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarQing Huang <qing.huang@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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