From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/5] mm: add coherence API for DMA to vmalloc/vmap areas
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:14:21 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1262549661.2173.262.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1262469295.2741.30.camel@mulgrave.site>
On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 15:54 -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> Well, that's the result of the email thread. XFS is poking deeply into
> architectural issues by trying to do I/O on a vmap area. I thought the
> consensus was that if xfs wants to do that then it takes complete
> responsibility for coherence rather than trying to hide it in a block
> API.
Well, maybe ... Mostly my comment was about the "other" (standard) DMA
APIs, ie, the work you do for XFS just reminded me of that issue I've
been thinking about :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-03 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-23 21:22 [PATCHv2 0/5] fix xfs by making I/O to vmap/vmalloc areas work James Bottomley
2009-12-23 21:22 ` [PATCHv2 1/5] mm: add coherence API for DMA to vmalloc/vmap areas James Bottomley
2009-12-23 21:22 ` James Bottomley
2009-12-23 21:22 ` [PATCHv2 2/5] parisc: add mm " James Bottomley
2009-12-23 21:22 ` [PATCHv2 3/5] arm: " James Bottomley
2009-12-23 21:22 ` [PATCHv2 4/5] sh: " James Bottomley
2009-12-23 21:22 ` James Bottomley
2009-12-23 21:22 ` [PATCHv2 5/5] xfs: fix xfs to work with Virtually Indexed architectures James Bottomley
2009-12-24 11:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-12-24 11:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-12-27 15:32 ` James Bottomley
2010-01-02 21:33 ` [PATCHv2 2/5] parisc: add mm API for DMA to vmalloc/vmap areas Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-01-02 21:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-01-02 21:53 ` James Bottomley
2010-01-03 20:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-01-03 20:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-12-24 10:08 ` [PATCHv2 1/5] mm: add coherence " Matt Fleming
2009-12-24 10:08 ` Matt Fleming
2009-12-24 12:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-12-24 12:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-12-24 13:06 ` Matt Fleming
2009-12-24 13:06 ` Matt Fleming
2009-12-27 15:37 ` James Bottomley
2010-01-02 21:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-01-02 21:54 ` James Bottomley
2010-01-03 20:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-01-03 20:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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