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mmKconfig: add an option to disable bounce
There are times when HIGHMEM is enabled, but we don't prefer CONFIG_BOUNCE to be enabled. CONFIG_BOUNCE can reduce the block device throughput, and this is not ideal for machines where we don't gain much by enabling it. So provide an option to deselect CONFIG_BOUNCE. The observation was made while measuring eMMC throughput using iozone on an ARM device with 1GB RAM. Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]> Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Cc: Russell King <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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@@ -263,8 +263,14 @@ config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
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config BOUNCE
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def_bool y
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bool "Enable bounce buffers"
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default y
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depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
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help
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Enable bounce buffers for devices that cannot access
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the full range of memory available to the CPU. Enabled
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by default when ZONE_DMA or HIGHMEM is selected, but you
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may say n to override this.
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# On the 'tile' arch, USB OHCI needs the bounce pool since tilegx will often
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# have more than 4GB of memory, but we don't currently use the IOTLB to present

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