From: hch@lst.de (Christoph Hellwig)
Subject: [PATCH for-4.13] nvme-pci: use dma memory for the host memory buffer descriptors
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 16:50:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170829145032.GA32673@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170829135923.GF9310@linux-x5ow.site>
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017@03:59:23PM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017@10:47:18AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > - descs = kcalloc(max_entries, sizeof(*descs), GFP_KERNEL);
> > + descs = dma_zalloc_coherent(dev->dev, max_entries * sizeof(*descs),
> > + &descs_dma, GFP_KERNEL);
>
> [...]
>
> > - kfree(descs);
> > + dma_free_coherent(dev->dev, max_entries * sizeof(*dev->host_mem_descs),
> > + descs, descs_dma);
>
> If the patch isn't super urgent, I'd prefere the sizeof() arguments being
> aligned, i.e. either sizeof(*descs) _or_ sizeof(*dev->host_mem_descs) but not
> both. It's rather confusing for the reader. Maybe just cache the max_entries *
> sizeof(*dev->host_mem_descs) value?
Sure, I'll fix it up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-29 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-28 8:47 [PATCH for-4.13] nvme-pci: use dma memory for the host memory buffer descriptors Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-29 13:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-29 13:59 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-08-29 14:50 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-08-29 22:00 ` Keith Busch
2017-08-30 10:05 ` Sagi Grimberg
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