From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F19A6C2FD for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2023 06:48:19 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="xLIFS3Pg" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=B6IEDpKxmFT6XzoVY67nmt1UAN0GIzc6WD3LlcrBHUA=; b=xLIFS3Pg0NZCV8AK8QfxlV0ab4 A4+EmFJMuo3lBozKSGWcE4eFne9tslAKWUYjyPVcVsEoQTqhCPZ6BWbneVPif4hRTh8jLLgeVYh0E aBwZX0Dn2RMJAqpwmM0KPPolvsUN6vNi8yvUUH7Gu1FnXk/M6dHwizLhS/0W1rjfvLk29oysZJMai O+2wYVOvrZImLQCg+1uiVwSO8XdgYHZmj9P4I6mt45NgdGFQc3W0/EmBHkHoPKg0LGra7EOW/eTo5 1s5MAnPR23m/l/cGpAkIn4b9WAF92UUQpkZu74oaXnlKvzxI1NM6jvABbkjtlNAprHnrjzaH9dKAO aWRNQsmA==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1rGCqt-001qoc-0r; Thu, 21 Dec 2023 06:48:15 +0000 Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 22:48:15 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Nilesh Javali Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "martin.petersen@oracle.com" , "lduncan@suse.com" , "cleech@redhat.com" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream , "jmeneghi@redhat.com" Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] cnic: change __GFP_COMP allocation method Message-ID: References: <20231219055514.12324-1-njavali@marvell.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 06:16:38AM +0000, Nilesh Javali wrote: > If you are referring to the series proposed by Chris Leech, then this had > objections. And that was the reason to look for an alternative method for > coherent DMA mapping. > > [PATCH 0/3] UIO_MEM_DMA_COHERENT for cnic/bnx2/bnx2x Yes. Well, Greg (rightly) dislikes what the iscsi drivers have been doing. But we're stuck supporting them, so I see no way around that.