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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, akataria@vmware.com,
	lenb@kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, petr@vmware.com
Subject: Re: swiotlb detection should be memory hotplug aware ?
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:09:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739v3kgl6.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100728190939D.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> (FUJITA Tomonori's message of "Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:10:19 +0900")

FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> writes:
>
>> The other problem is that using only  two bits for the needed address 
>> space is also extremly
>> inefficient (4GB and 16MB on x86). Really want masks everywhere and 
>> optimize for the
>> actual requirements.
>
> swiotlb doesn't allocate GFP_DMA memory. It handles only GFP_DMA32.

I was lumping GFP_DMA and swiotlb together here. The
pci_alloc_consistent() function uses both interchangedly.
They really effectively are the same thing these days
and just separated by historical accident.


> I have a half-baked patch for it. I'll send it later.

The problem are still the *_map users which usually cannot sleep,
and then it's difficult to grow.
For *_alloc it's relatively easy and to some extend already 
implemented.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-28 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-13  2:07 swiotlb detection should be memory hotplug aware ? Alok Kataria
2010-03-13  3:09 ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-15 17:22   ` Alok Kataria
2010-03-16  0:51   ` [LKML] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-03-16  1:33     ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-03-16 12:45       ` [LKML] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-03-17 22:48         ` Alok Kataria
2010-07-20 22:14           ` Alok Kataria
2010-07-21  4:58             ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-21 17:13               ` Alok Kataria
2010-07-21 23:44                 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-22  0:03                   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-22 18:34                     ` Alok Kataria
2010-07-23 14:22                       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-07-23 14:33                         ` Andi Kleen
2010-07-23 14:59                           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-07-23 15:23                             ` Andi Kleen
2010-07-28 10:10                               ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-28 11:09                                 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-07-28 14:20                                   ` FUJITA Tomonori

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