From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: Zach Pfeffer <zpfeffer@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
mel@csn.ul.ie, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] mm: iommu: The Virtual Contiguous Memory Manager
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:56:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100710145639.GC10080@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C2D965F.5000206@codeaurora.org>
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 12:33:51AM -0700, Zach Pfeffer wrote:
> Daniel Walker wrote:
> > So if we include this code which "map implementations" could you
> > collapse into this implementations ? Generally , what currently existing
> > code can VCMM help to eliminate?
>
> In theory, it can eliminate all code the interoperates between IOMMU,
> CPU and non-IOMMU based devices and all the mapping code, alignment,
> mapping attribute and special block size support that's been
> implemented.
Thats a very abstract statement. Can you point to particular code files
and give a rough sketch how it could be improved using VCMM?
Joerg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-10 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-30 5:55 [RFC 1/3] mm: iommu: An API to unify IOMMU, CPU and device memory management Zach Pfeffer
2010-06-30 5:55 ` [RFC 2/3] mm: iommu: A physical allocator for the VCMM Zach Pfeffer
2010-06-30 5:55 ` [RFC 3/3] mm: iommu: The Virtual Contiguous Memory Manager Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 17:17 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-07-01 18:02 ` Andi Kleen
2010-07-01 19:28 ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-01 19:38 ` Andi Kleen
2010-07-01 19:42 ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-01 22:15 ` Hari Kanigeri
2010-07-02 7:09 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-10 14:36 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-13 5:21 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-14 19:34 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-15 1:18 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 22:00 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 22:05 ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-02 7:33 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-10 14:56 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2010-07-13 5:46 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-13 5:59 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-13 8:20 ` Alan Cox
2010-07-13 8:30 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-13 8:42 ` Alan Cox
2010-07-13 8:45 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-13 9:02 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-14 1:59 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-22 3:50 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-22 4:47 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-22 16:33 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-22 7:51 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-22 16:13 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-13 12:06 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 22:51 ` Hari Kanigeri
2010-07-02 7:29 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 23:00 ` Andi Kleen
2010-07-02 6:17 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-02 8:22 ` Andi Kleen
2010-07-02 18:42 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-10 15:11 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-13 5:52 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-03 6:36 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-10 14:54 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-13 5:27 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 20:59 ` Paul Walmsley
2010-07-01 21:48 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-06-30 23:40 ` [RFC 1/3] mm: iommu: An API to unify IOMMU, CPU and device memory management Randy Dunlap
2010-07-01 7:16 ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-02 7:00 ` Paul Mundt
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