Re: Changing IOMMU-API for generic DMA-mapping supported by the hardware

['Joerg Roedel' <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 01:52:33PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> In my DMA-mapping IOMMU integration I've used a dma_iommu_mapping structure,
> which contains a pointer to iommu domain, a bitmap and a lock. Maybe we 
> should consider extending iommu domain with allocation bitmap (or other 
> structure that hold information about used/unused iova ranges)? From the
> DMA-mapping (as a IOMMU client) perspective we only need 2 more callbacks
> in IOMMU API: alloc_iova_range() and free_iova_range(). 
> 
> Each IOMMU implementation can provide these calls based on internal bitmap
> allocator which will also cover the issue with reserved ranges. What do you
> think about such solution?

Hmm, the main point of a generic DMA-mapping implementation is that a
common address-allocator will be used. Today every IOMMU driver that
implements the DMA-API has its own allocator, this is something to unify
between for all drivers.

The allocator information can be stored in the default iommu_domain. We
need a user-private pointer there, but that is easy to add.


	Joerg

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