ioremap of large space has any cost ?

Ran Shalit ranshalit at gmail.com
Wed Jan 18 03:13:41 EST 2017


Hello,

In case where we have large space (like in fpga), we thought of using
ioremap_nocache() giving the complete area space for simplicity.

But does it has any cost (performance, memory or other)  , or is it
better to use just chunk of the required space ?

Thank you,

Ran



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