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We use WC pages for coherent writes into the ppGTT on !llc architectures. However, to create a WC page requires a stop_machine(), i.e. is very slow. To compensate we currently keep a per-vm cache of recently freed pages, but we still see the slow startup of new contexts. We can amoritize that cost slightly by allocating WC pages in small batches (PAGEVEC_SIZE == 14) and since creating a WC page implies a stop_machine() there is no penalty for keeping that stash global. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170822173828.5932-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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