From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>, Anle Pan <anle.pan@nxp.com>,
m.szyprowski@samsung.com, mchehab@kernel.org,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
hui.fang@nxp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: videobuf2-dma-sg: limit the sg segment size
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2023 08:10:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230901061014.GA32166@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZPCylmcRD0hwluZf@ziepe.ca>
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 12:32:38PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> The entry is variable sized, so it depends on what is stuffed in
> it. For alot of common use cases, especially RDMA page lists, it will
> be able to use an 8 byte entry. This is pretty much the most space
> efficient it could be.
How do you get away with a 8 byte entry for addr+len?
> The primary alternative I see is a fixed 16 bytes/entry with a 64 bit
> address and ~60 bit length + ~4 bits of flags. This is closer to bio,
> simpler and faster, but makes the RDMA cases 2x bigger.
That's what I'd expect.
> With your direction I felt we could safely keep bio as it is and
> cheaply make a fast DMA mapper for it. Provide something like this as
> the 'kitchen sink' version for dmabuf/rdma/etc that are a little
> different.
So for the first version I see no need to change the bio_vec
representation as part of this project, but at the same time the
bio_vec representation causes problems for other reasons. So I want
to change it anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-01 6:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-28 7:54 [PATCH] media: videobuf2-dma-sg: limit the sg segment size Anle Pan
2023-08-29 10:03 ` Tomasz Figa
2023-08-29 11:14 ` Robin Murphy
2023-08-29 15:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-30 3:47 ` Tomasz Figa
2023-08-30 14:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-30 16:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-08-31 12:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-31 15:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-09-01 6:10 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-09-01 14:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
[not found] ` <DB9PR04MB92841D8BC1122D5A4210F78987E6A@DB9PR04MB9284.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>
2023-08-30 13:41 ` [EXT] " Robin Murphy
2023-08-30 3:59 ` Tomasz Figa
2023-09-06 8:52 ` Hans Verkuil
2023-09-06 9:26 ` Tomasz Figa
2023-09-06 9:43 ` Hans Verkuil
2023-08-30 8:50 ` Hui Fang
2023-08-30 9:28 ` Tomasz Figa
2023-09-04 7:10 ` [EXT] " Hui Fang
2023-09-05 3:43 ` Tomasz Figa
2023-09-06 8:16 ` Hui Fang
2023-09-06 9:28 ` Tomasz Figa
2023-09-11 6:13 ` Hui Fang
2023-09-12 2:22 ` Tomasz Figa
2023-09-12 7:01 ` Hui Fang
2023-09-12 7:10 ` Tomasz Figa
2023-09-12 7:43 ` Hui Fang
2023-09-12 7:51 ` Tomasz Figa
2023-09-13 9:13 ` Hui Fang
2023-09-13 9:44 ` Tomasz Figa
2023-09-13 13:16 ` Hui Fang
2023-09-18 2:28 ` Hui Fang
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