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vfio_pin_pages_remote() is typically called to iterate over a range of memory. Testing CAP_IPC_LOCK is relatively expensive, so it makes sense to push it up to the caller, which can then repeatedly call vfio_pin_pages_remote() using that value. This can show nearly a 20% improvement on the worst case path through VFIO_IOMMU_MAP_DMA with contiguous page mapping disabled. Testing RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is much more lightweight, but we bring it along on the same principle and it does seem to show a marginal improvement. Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.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.