[PATCH] powerpc: Lower threshold for DART enablement to 1GB

Turn on the DART already at 1GB. This is needed because of crippled
devices in some systems, i.e. Airport Extreme cards, only supporting
30-bit DMA addresses.

Otherwise, users with between 1 and 2GB of memory will need to manually
enable it with iommu=force, and that's no good.

Some simple performance tests show that there's a slight impact of
enabling DART, but it's in the 1-3% range (kernel build with disk I/O
as well as over NFS).

iommu=off can still be used for those who don't want to deal with the
overhead (and don't need it for any devices).

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/dart_iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/dart_iommu.c
index 61d317428610..38087bd6e3cf 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/dart_iommu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/dart_iommu.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 
 #include "dart.h"
 
+extern int iommu_is_off;
 extern int iommu_force_on;
 
 /* Physical base address and size of the DART table */
@@ -329,10 +330,17 @@ void iommu_init_early_dart(void)
 
 void __init alloc_dart_table(void)
 {
-        /* Only reserve DART space if machine has more than 2GB of RAM
+        /* Only reserve DART space if machine has more than 1GB of RAM
          * or if requested with iommu=on on cmdline.
+         *
+         * 1GB of RAM is picked as limit because some default devices
+         * (i.e. Airport Extreme) have 30 bit address range limits.
          */
-        if (lmb_end_of_DRAM() <= 0x80000000ull && !iommu_force_on)
+
+        if (iommu_is_off)
+                return;
+
+        if (!iommu_force_on && lmb_end_of_DRAM() <= 0x40000000ull)
                 return;
 
         /* 512 pages (2MB) is max DART tablesize. */