Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] Allow dynamic allocation of software IO TLB bounce buffers

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jul 20 2023 - 04:23:27 EST


On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 10:13:20AM +0200, Petr Tesařík wrote:
> Fine with me. I removed it after all my testing showed no performance
> impact as long as the size of the initial SWIOTLB is kept at the
> default value (and sufficient for the workload), but it's OK for me if
> dynamic SWIOTLB allocations are off by default.
>
> OTOH I'd like to make it a boot-time option rather than build-time
> option. Would that be OK for you?

I'd really like the config option to not even build the code. But
a boot time option sounds very useful in addition to that.