From: Stanislaw Gruszka <stanislaw.gruszka@linux.intel.com>
To: Jeffrey Hugo <quic_jhugo@quicinc.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
ogabbay@kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
quic_ajitpals@quicinc.com, quic_pkanojiy@quicinc.com,
quic_carlv@quicinc.com, jacek.lawrynowicz@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] accel/qaic: Add datapath
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 18:05:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230301170514.GB3963532@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83543d98-e624-fadc-7f92-490efa602805@quicinc.com>
On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 09:08:03AM -0700, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
> > This looks a bit suspicious. Are you sure you can modify
> > sg->dma_address and still use it as valid value ?
>
> A single entry in the sg table is a contiguous mapping of memory. If it
> wasn't contiguous, it would have to be broken up into multiple entries. In
> the simple case, a driver is going to take the dma_address/len pair and hand
> that directly to the device. Then the device is going to access every
> address in that range.
>
> If the device can access every address from dma_address to dma_address +
> len, why can't it access a subset of that?
Required address alignment can be broken. Not sure if only that.
> > > Are you suggesting renaming
> > > this function? I guess I'm not quite understanding your comment here. Can
> > > you elaborate?
> >
> > Renaming would be nice. I was thinking by simplifying it, not sure
> > now if that's easy achievable, though.
>
> Ok. I'll think on this.
Maybe this function could be removed ? And create sg lists
that hardware can handle without any modification.
Just idea to consider, not any requirement.
Regards
Stanislaw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-01 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-06 15:41 [PATCH v2 0/8] QAIC accel driver Jeffrey Hugo
2023-02-06 15:41 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] accel/qaic: Add documentation for AIC100 accelerator driver Jeffrey Hugo
2023-02-14 11:08 ` Jacek Lawrynowicz
2023-02-15 15:41 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2023-02-16 14:18 ` Jacek Lawrynowicz
2023-02-16 15:20 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2023-02-06 15:41 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] accel/qaic: Add uapi and core driver file Jeffrey Hugo
2023-02-16 14:13 ` Jacek Lawrynowicz
2023-02-17 18:15 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2023-02-22 15:52 ` Dafna Hirschfeld
2023-02-24 21:21 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2023-03-01 19:46 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2023-02-06 15:41 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] accel/qaic: Add MHI controller Jeffrey Hugo
2023-02-28 11:52 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2023-03-01 16:09 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2023-03-03 13:57 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2023-02-06 15:41 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] accel/qaic: Add control path Jeffrey Hugo
2023-03-01 13:18 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2023-03-01 17:02 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2023-02-06 15:41 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] accel/qaic: Add datapath Jeffrey Hugo
2023-02-24 15:25 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2023-02-24 19:36 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2023-02-27 17:14 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2023-03-01 16:08 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2023-03-01 17:05 ` Stanislaw Gruszka [this message]
2023-03-01 18:14 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2023-03-03 13:49 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2023-02-06 15:41 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] accel/qaic: Add mhi_qaic_cntl Jeffrey Hugo
2023-03-01 13:19 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2023-02-06 15:41 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] accel/qaic: Add qaic driver to the build system Jeffrey Hugo
2023-03-01 13:02 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2023-03-01 16:10 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2023-02-06 15:41 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for QAIC driver Jeffrey Hugo
2023-03-01 13:03 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2023-03-01 16:15 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2023-02-08 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] QAIC accel driver Jeffrey Hugo
2023-02-17 16:14 ` Jeffrey Hugo
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