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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] powerpc: Add support for swiotlb on 32-bit
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 07:49:55 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1242683395.16901.0.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DE108B1C-85A6-4D1F-8E4D-E1AB5495578A@kernel.crashing.org>

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 08:25 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> 
> Part of this is how the generic swiotlb code works and part of it
> was  
> our desire not to bloat dev archdata by adding such info that as you  
> say is either bus specific or conveyed in the dma addr mask.

Right but perf sucks :-)

Maybe an option is to clamp the DMA mask when it's set by the driver to
limit it to the available inbound window ?

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-18 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-14 22:42 [PATCH V2 1/3] powerpc: Use sg->dma_length in sg_dma_len() macro on 32-bit Becky Bruce
2009-05-14 22:42 ` [PATCH V2 2/3] powerpc: Add support for swiotlb " Becky Bruce
2009-05-14 22:42   ` [PATCH V2 3/3] powerpc: Add 86xx support for SWIOTLB Becky Bruce
2009-05-15  4:49   ` [PATCH V2 2/3] powerpc: Add support for swiotlb on 32-bit Kumar Gala
2009-05-18  4:49   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-05-18 13:25     ` Kumar Gala
2009-05-18 21:49       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-05-19 13:04         ` Kumar Gala
2009-05-19 20:06           ` Becky Bruce
2009-05-28  4:42           ` Kumar Gala
2009-05-28  6:11             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-05-28 13:06               ` Kumar Gala
2009-05-19  5:27   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-19 20:57     ` Becky Bruce
2009-05-21 17:43       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-21 18:27         ` Becky Bruce
2009-05-21 19:01           ` Ian Campbell
2009-05-22 10:51             ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-21 20:18           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-21 22:08             ` Ian Campbell
2009-05-22 10:51             ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-27 19:05               ` Becky Bruce
2009-05-22 11:11           ` Ian Campbell
2009-05-22 23:55             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-23 22:59               ` Leon Woestenberg
2009-05-26 12:51               ` Ian Campbell
2009-05-27 19:11                 ` Becky Bruce
2009-05-27 19:05             ` Becky Bruce
2009-05-27 20:29               ` Ian Campbell
2009-05-27 22:11                 ` Becky Bruce

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