Jason Cai (Xiang Feng)
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When using vfio to pass through a PCIe device (e.g. a GPU card) that has a huge BAR (e.g. 16GB), a lot of cycles are wasted on memory pinning because PFNs of PCI BAR are not backed by struct page, and the corresponding VMA has flag VM_PFNMAP. With this change, when pinning a region which is a raw PFN mapping, it can skip unnecessary user memory pinning process, and thus, can significantly improve VM's boot up time when passing through devices via VFIO. In my test on a Xeon E5 2.6GHz, the time mapping a 16GB BAR was reduced from about 0.4s to 1.5us. Signed-off-by: Jason Cai (Xiang Feng) <jason.cai@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.