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From: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
To: 'Krishna Reddy' <vdumpa@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	'Russell King - ARM Linux' <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	'Arnd Bergmann' <arnd@arndb.de>, 'Joerg Roedel' <joro@8bytes.org>,
	linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	'Kyungmin Park' <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
	Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@samsung.com>,
	'Chunsang Jeong' <chunsang.jeong@linaro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: RE: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 1/2] ARM: initial proof-of-concept IOMMU mapper for DMA-mapping
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:49:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00e501cc88a2$b82fc680$288f5380$%szyprowski@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <401E54CE964CD94BAE1EB4A729C7087E3722519BF4@HQMAIL04.nvidia.com>

Hello,

On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 3:35 AM Krishna Reddy wrote:

> >>It looks that You have simplified arm_iommu_map_sg() function too much.
> >>The main advantage of the iommu is to map scattered memory pages into
> >>contiguous dma address space. DMA-mapping is allowed to merge consecutive
> >>entries in the scatter list if hardware supports that.
> >>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1128416
> >I would update arm_iommu_map_sg() back to coalesce the sg list.
> >>MMC drivers seem to be aware of coalescing the SG entries together as they are using
> dma_sg_len().
> 
> I have updated the arm_iommu_map_sg() back to coalesce and fixed the issues with it. During
> testing, I found out that mmc host driver doesn't support buffers bigger than 64K. To get the
> device working, I had to break the sg entries coalesce when dma_length is about to go beyond
> 64KB. Looks like Mmc host driver(sdhci.c) need to be fixed to handle buffers bigger than 64KB.
> Should the clients be forced to handle bigger buffers or is there any better way to handle
> these kind of issues?

There is struct device_dma_parameters *dma_parms member of struct device. You can specify
maximum segment size for the dma_map_sg function. This will of course complicate this function
even more...

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski
Samsung Poland R&D Center

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-12  5:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-02 13:56 [RFC 0/2 v2] ARM: DMA-mapping & IOMMU integration Marek Szyprowski
2011-09-02 13:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: initial proof-of-concept IOMMU mapper for DMA-mapping Marek Szyprowski
2011-09-08 16:41   ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Laura Abbott
2011-09-21 14:50     ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-10 21:56       ` Krishna Reddy
2011-10-11  8:19         ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-11 18:13           ` Krishna Reddy
2011-10-12  1:34             ` Krishna Reddy
2011-10-12  5:49               ` Marek Szyprowski [this message]
2011-10-12  7:02                 ` Krishna Reddy
2011-10-13  0:18                   ` Krishna Reddy
2011-10-17 14:07                     ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-09-02 13:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: Samsung: update/rewrite Samsung SYSMMU (IOMMU) driver Marek Szyprowski
2011-09-05 18:21   ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-09-06 10:27   ` KyongHo Cho
2011-09-06 12:35     ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Ohad Ben-Cohen

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