[kernel-team] [PATCH 1/3] staging: Android: vsoc: Create wc kernel mapping for region shm.

Joel Fernandes joelaf at google.com
Thu May 3 05:11:42 UTC 2018


On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 9:45 PM 'Alistair Strachan' via kernel-team <
kernel-team at android.com> wrote:

> Map the region shm as write-combining instead of uncachable.


I think more commit message is needed. Why is this done, what does it fix,
etc. Its hard to know what the improvement is without a cover-letter either.

I am assuming the improvement is in performance by using the
write-combining mode.

thanks,

- Joel


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