Re: virt_to_page/pci_map_page vs. pci_map_single

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>]

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 10:35, Matt Porter wrote:
> This raises a question for me regarding these rules in 2.4 versus
> 2.6.  While fixing a bug in PPC's 2.4 pci_map_page/pci_map_sg
> implementations I noticed that a scatterlist created by the IDE
> subsystem will pass nents by page struct reference with a
> size > PAGE_SIZE.  Is this a 2.4ism resulting from allowing both
> address and page reference scatterlist entries?  This isn't
> explicitly mentioned in the DMA docs AFAICT.  I'm wondering
> if this is the same expected behavior in 2.6 as well.  If
> pci_map_page() is limited to size <= PAGE_SIZE then I would
> expect pci_map_sg() to be limited as well (and vice versa).

Not really.  By design, the SG interface can handle entries that are
physically contiguous.

If you have a limit on the length of your SG elements (because of the
device hardware, say), you can express this to the block layer with the
blk_queue_max_segment_size() API.

James