From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC sparc] Break up iommu from monolithic lock for the map to multiple pools/locks
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:29:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141219172928.GG4294@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141219151616.GB25248@oracle.com>
On (12/19/14 12:26), David Miller wrote:
>
> If this is such a better and more scalable algorithm for IOMMU
> arena DMA region allocation, then instead of one platform after
> another putting a private implementation under arch/, the generic
> IOMMU code should be adjusted instead.
>
> Right?
>
Yes, it should.. that would be the eventual goal. But I wanted
to do this incrementally (IOW, I was scared to boil the ocean just yet :-)
I see pci, schizo, ldc using this as well. Even if I managed to
convert all of them successfully, the patch-set would be pretty massive)
So I wanted to get some feedback on this first
--Sowmini
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-19 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-19 15:16 [PATCH RFC sparc] Break up iommu from monolithic lock for the map to multiple pools/locks Sowmini Varadhan
2014-12-19 17:26 ` David Miller
2014-12-19 17:29 ` Sowmini Varadhan [this message]
2014-12-19 18:31 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2014-12-19 19:57 ` David Miller
2014-12-19 20:06 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2014-12-19 20:24 ` David Miller
2014-12-19 20:44 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2014-12-19 20:56 ` David Miller
2014-12-19 22:06 ` Sowmini Varadhan
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