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From: Zach Pfeffer <zpfeffer@codeaurora.org>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: linux@arm.linux.org.uk, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	randy.dunlap@oracle.com, dwalker@codeaurora.org, mel@csn.ul.ie,
	linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, joro@8bytes.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	andi@firstfloor.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: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:33:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100722163338.GE10255@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100722134708I.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:47:36PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:50:26 -0700
> Zach Pfeffer <zpfeffer@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:59:43AM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:02:23 +0100
> > > 
> > > Zach Pfeffer said this new VCM infrastructure can be useful for
> > > video4linux. However, I don't think we need 3,000-lines another
> > > abstraction layer to solve video4linux's issue nicely.
> > 
> > Its only 3000 lines because I haven't converted the code to use
> > function pointers.
> 
> The main point is adding a new abstraction that don't provide the huge
> benefit.

I disagree. In its current form the API may not be appropriate for
inclusion into the kernel, but it provides a common framework for
handling a class of problems that have been solved many times in the
kernel: large buffer management, IOMMU interoperation and fine grained
mapping control.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-22 16:33 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
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 [this message]
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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