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From: 'Christoph Hellwig' <hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/16] dma-mapping: use exact allocation in dma_alloc_contiguous
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 17:05:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190614150558.GA9402@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d93fd4c2c1584d92a05dd641929f6d63-1XygrNkDbNvwg4NCKwmqgw@public.gmane.org>

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 03:01:22PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> I'm pretty sure there is a lot of code out there that makes that assumption.
> Without it many drivers will have to allocate almost double the
> amount of memory they actually need in order to get the required alignment.
> So instead of saving memory you'll actually make more be used.

That code would already be broken on a lot of Linux platforms.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-06-14 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-14 13:47 use exact allocation for dma coherent memory Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 01/16] media: videobuf-dma-contig: use dma_mmap_coherent Christoph Hellwig
     [not found] ` <20190614134726.3827-1-hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2019-06-14 13:47   ` [PATCH 02/16] drm/ati_pcigart: stop using drm_pci_alloc Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47   ` [PATCH 03/16] drm/i915: " Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 16:45     ` [Intel-gfx] " Ville Syrjälä
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 04/16] drm: move drm_pci_{alloc, free} to drm_legacy Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 05/16] drm: don't mark pages returned from drm_pci_alloc reserved Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 06/16] drm: don't pass __GFP_COMP to dma_alloc_coherent in drm_pci_alloc Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 07/16] IB/hfi1: stop passing bogus gfp flags arguments to dma_alloc_coherent Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 08/16] IB/qib: " Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 09/16] cnic: " Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 10/16] iwlwifi: " Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 11/16] s390/ism: " Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 12/16] staging/comedi: mark as broken Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 14:02   ` Greg KH
2019-06-14 14:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 15:30       ` Greg KH
2019-06-14 15:34         ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-17 13:15           ` Ian Abbott
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 13/16] mm: rename alloc_pages_exact_nid to alloc_pages_exact_node Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 14/16] mm: use alloc_pages_exact_node to implement alloc_pages_exact Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 15/16] dma-mapping: clear __GFP_COMP in dma_alloc_attrs Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 16/16] dma-mapping: use exact allocation in dma_alloc_contiguous Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]   ` <20190614134726.3827-17-hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2019-06-14 14:15     ` David Laight
     [not found]       ` <a90cf7ec5f1c4166b53c40e06d4d832a-1XygrNkDbNvwg4NCKwmqgw@public.gmane.org>
2019-06-14 14:50         ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2019-06-14 15:01           ` David Laight
     [not found]             ` <d93fd4c2c1584d92a05dd641929f6d63-1XygrNkDbNvwg4NCKwmqgw@public.gmane.org>
2019-06-14 15:05               ` 'Christoph Hellwig' [this message]
2019-06-14 15:05           ` Robin Murphy
2019-06-14 15:08             ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2019-06-14 15:16             ` David Laight
2019-06-17  8:21 ` use exact allocation for dma coherent memory Dan Carpenter
2019-06-17  8:33   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-19 16:29     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-20 10:51       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-07-01  8:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-07-02  9:48   ` Arend Van Spriel
2019-07-08 18:43     ` Christoph Hellwig

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