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Ming Lei authored
It is common for one sg to include many pages, so mark all these pages as clean to avoid unnecessary flushing on them in set_pte_at() or update_mmu_cache(). The patch might improve loading performance of applciation code a bit. On the below test code to read file(~1GByte size) from usb mass storage disk to buffer created with mmap(PROT_READ | PROT_EXEC) on Pandaboard, average ~1% improvement can be observed with the patch on 10 times test. unsigned int sum = 0; static unsigned long tv_diff(struct timeval *tv1, struct timeval *tv2) { return (tv2->tv_sec - tv1->tv_sec) * 1000000 + (tv2->tv_usec - tv1->tv_usec); } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { char *mbuffer; int fd; int i; unsigned long page_size, size; struct stat stat; struct timeval t1, t2; page_size = getpagesize(); fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY); assert(fd >= 0); fstat(fd, &stat); size = stat.st_size; printf("%s: file %s, file size %lu, page size %lun", argv[0], read_filename, size, page_size); gettimeofday(&t1, NULL); mbuffer = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ | PROT_EXEC, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); for (i = 0 ; i < size ; i += page_size) sum += mbuffer[i]; munmap(mbuffer, page_size); gettimeofday(&t2, NULL); printf("tread mmaped time: %luusn", tv_diff(&t1, &t2)); close(fd); } Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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