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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Georgi Djakov <quic_c_gdjako@quicinc.com>,
	catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org,
	dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, luto@kernel.org,
	peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
	bp@alien8.de, m.szyprowski@samsung.com, robin.murphy@arm.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, iommu@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, djakov@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] mm: Allow ZONE_DMA32 to be disabled via kernel command line
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 08:07:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230127070705.GA4180@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C7DCCCB1-AABE-4D3B-80B1-AB755A68D460@zytor.com>

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 10:52:43PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >If people want ZONE_DMA32 to go away we need something to replace
> >it first, like a large enough CMA region in the 32-bit addressable
> >range.
> 
> Not to mention all kinds of odd masks like 30, 31, 39, 40, 46, ... bits.

Yes.  Out of those all >= 32 are falling straight into ZONE_DM32,
the lower ones we do a first try in ZONE_DMA32 and then fall back to
ZONE_DMA.  <= 29 mask OTOH are really rate in modern systems for
actual devices.  So with a CMA region for what is currently ZONE_DMA
and one for the first 1G we'd probably cover most of what's actually
needed for x86_64.  Of course on 32-bit architetures things become
a lot more complicated due to highmem.

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-27  7:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-26 16:43 [RFC] mm: Allow ZONE_DMA32 to be disabled via kernel command line Georgi Djakov
2023-01-26 18:51 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-26 22:56   ` Georgi Djakov
2023-01-27  0:57   ` Randy Dunlap
2023-01-27  6:35   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-27  6:52     ` H. Peter Anvin
2023-01-27  7:07       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-01-26 19:15 ` Robin Murphy
2023-01-27  2:20   ` Chris Goldsworthy
2023-01-27  8:55     ` Hillf Danton
2023-02-01  4:09       ` Chris Goldsworthy

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