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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com
Cc: hch@infradead.org, stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de,
	fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	jens.axboe@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/19] clean ups on the drivers
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 13:37:30 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070515.133730.120446537.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1179248245.3685.23.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>

From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 12:57:25 -0400

> It might make sense to put it in lib ... however, I don't think many
> architectures have the problems we have ... specifically certain boxes
> can have >1 IOMMU, then you really have to know *which* iommu you're
> programming.

Sparc64 boxes will have this at some point, but what I'm
going to do is simply fill in the dev_archdata properly at
device scan time.

Instead of doing a bus walk up the parent every IOMMU request, why not
cache those results in the dev_archdata?  That seems to make the most
sense.

If there is some probing complexity, catch not-setup dev_archdata at
the IOMMU request, and slow path into a resolver of some sort.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-15 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-12 10:05 [PATCH 0/19] clean ups on the drivers FUJITA Tomonori
2007-05-12 15:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-13  3:30   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-05-14 14:40   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-05-14 15:39     ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-14 22:36       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-05-15  9:01       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-15 11:54         ` James Bottomley
2007-05-15 11:57           ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-15 16:57             ` James Bottomley
2007-05-15 20:37               ` David Miller [this message]
2007-05-15 20:49                 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-22 23:32     ` FUJITA Tomonori

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