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From: Dipjyoti Saikia <dipjyoti.saikia@gmail.com>
To: Bharma Ji <bharmaji@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How to pin a userland page in memory(avoid copyin and copyout)
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On 1/31/06, Bharma Ji <bharmaji@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
> I am trying to explore the option avoiding copyin and copyout when mode
> switches from user to kernel and vice versa. One way to achieve this, as =
I
> understand, is to make the memory address (which contain the data to be
> copied) non pageable. Then just pass the addresses to the kernel and the
> data will be used directly from the userland page. Is there already some
> example code / standard way to do this?
>
> Also is there any way one can determine the amount of time / performance
> hit
> (CPU %)that happening on a given process due to the copyin and copyout. I
> want to understand how much performance gain one can gain if I am able to
> remove copyin/copyout.
>
> This may give some pointers :

  kern/sys_pipe.c
          -->pipe_build_write_buffer()

I was working on pipe implementation in  BSD derivative of  4.10 branch and
remember the same concept  of pinning the user space buffer for bypassing
kernel buffer.

Thanks,
Dip