On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 11:49:54AM -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
On 3/4/19 10:10 AM, Erik Skultety wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 10:23:12AM -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> > passthroughLimit is being calculated even if usesVFIO is false.
> > After that, a if/else conditional is used to check if we're going
> > to sum it up with baseLimit.
> >
> > This patch initializes passthroughLimit to zero and always
> > return memKB = baseLimit + passthroughLimit. The conditional
> > is then used to calculate passthroughLimit if usesVFIO is true.
> > This results in some cycles spared for the usesVFIO=false
> > scenario, but the real motivation is to make the code simpler
> > to add an alternative passthroughLimit formula for NVLink2
> > passthrough.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413(a)gmail.com>
> > ---
> ACK to the idea, but looking at the number of lines of the PPC64 arch specific
> logic (I know commentaries mostly), I think it deserves a separate helper to
> enhance the readability.
You mean a 'static unsigned long long getPPC64MemLockLimit' like function
that
encapsulates the ppc64 logic? That can be arranged, no problem.
Yep, exactly.
Erik