Re: [PATCH v8 00/24] Provide a new two step DMA mapping API

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri Apr 18 2025 - 08:18:26 EST


On 4/18/25 12:47 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> Following recent on site LSF/MM 2025 [1] discussion, the overall
> response was extremely positive with many people expressed their
> desire to see this series merged, so they can base their work on it.
>
> It includes, but not limited:
> * Luis's "nvme-pci: breaking the 512 KiB max IO boundary":
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250320111328.2841690-1-mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx/
> * Chuck's NFS conversion to use one structure (bio_vec) for all types
> of RPC transports:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/913df4b4-fc4a-409d-9007-088a3e2c8291@xxxxxxxxxx
> * Matthew's vision for the world without struct page:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250320111328.2841690-1-mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx/
> * Confidential computing roadmap from Dan:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/6801a8e3968da_71fe29411@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.notmuch
>
> This series is combination of effort of many people who contributed ideas,
> code and testing and I'm gratefully thankful for them.

Since I previously complained about performance regressions from this
series, I re-tested the current code. I no longer see a performance
regression on a AMD EPYC 9754 256 core box, nor on AMD EPYC 7763 128
core box.

Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>

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Jens Axboe