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Re: Lockdep warning when using REGCACHE_RBTREE

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Subject Re: Lockdep warning when using REGCACHE_RBTREE
Date Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:30:03 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 05:14:47PM -0800, Stefan Agner wrote:

> On a slightly other topic, I question whether REGCACHE_RBTREE is the
> right cache type for the DCU DRM driver. The driver has uses a regmap
> area of 1144 32-bit registers, the most space is used by the layer
> configuration registers which are 0x40 apart and 0x0-0x20 for each layer
> are actually used (hence somewhat above 50%).

> Would FLAT be the better cache type?

Yes, and if it's a MMIO device the performance of a flat cache is more
in line with the device performance.

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Lockdep warning when using REGCACHE_RBTREE Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch> - 2016-01-14 23:40 +0100
  Re: Lockdep warning when using REGCACHE_RBTREE Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-01-15 01:10 +0100
    Re: Lockdep warning when using REGCACHE_RBTREE Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch> - 2016-01-15 02:20 +0100
      Re: Lockdep warning when using REGCACHE_RBTREE Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-01-15 17:30 +0100
        Re: Lockdep warning when using REGCACHE_RBTREE Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch> - 2016-01-15 20:20 +0100
  Re: Lockdep warning when using REGCACHE_RBTREE Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-15 10:50 +0100
    Re: Lockdep warning when using REGCACHE_RBTREE Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-01-15 13:00 +0100

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