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From: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, "Mallick,
	Asit K" <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.13 0/6] swiotlb maintenance and x86_64 dma_sync_single_range_for_{cpu,device}
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:38:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050923213851.GA6242@esmail.cup.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050923185021.GC6576@tuxdriver.com>

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:50:23PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:27:26AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > >> It should just go away once the GFP_DMA32 code is merged.
> > >
> > >Is that the plan?  I suppose it makes sense.
> 
> > I don't have a good (or in fact any) understanding of the impact
> > of GFP_DMA32 on ia64.  People tell me it will all be good, but I'd
> > like to hear from someone running it.
>  
> All the patches I saw were for x86_64.  So, the impact on ia64 should
> be minimal... :-)

impact to arch/ia64 might be minimal. My understanding was
all the drivers that support 32-bit devices would need tweaks
to use GFP_DMA32 flag.  Is this still the plan?
	http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9901.3/0323.html

Most of what I've read in Andi's patch otherwise makes sense:
	http://lwn.net/Articles/152337/

But I didn't see Andi suggest that swiotlb should go completely away.

thanks,
grant

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-23 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-23 18:27 [patch 2.6.13 0/6] swiotlb maintenance and x86_64 dma_sync_single_range_for_{cpu,device} Luck, Tony
2005-09-23 18:50 ` John W. Linville
2005-09-23 21:38   ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2005-09-26  7:01 ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-26 21:01 ` [patch 2.6.14-rc2 0/5] " John W. Linville
2005-09-26 21:01   ` [patch 2.6.14-rc2 1/5] swiotlb: move from arch/ia64/lib to drivers/pci John W. Linville
2005-09-26 21:01     ` [patch 2.6.14-rc2 2/5] swiotlb: cleanup some code duplication cruft John W. Linville
2005-09-26 21:01       ` [patch 2.6.14-rc2 3/5] swiotlb: support syncing sub-ranges of mappings John W. Linville
2005-09-26 21:01         ` [patch 2.6.14-rc2 4/5] swiotlb: support syncing DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL mappings John W. Linville
2005-09-26 21:01           ` [patch 2.6.14-rc2 5/5] swiotlb: file header comments John W. Linville
2005-09-26 21:33   ` [patch 2.6.14-rc2 0/5] swiotlb maintenance and x86_64 dma_sync_single_range_for_{cpu,device} Matthew Wilcox
2005-09-26 21:54     ` John W. Linville
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-22 20:37 [patch 2.6.13 0/6] " Luck, Tony
2005-09-22 20:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-23 18:22   ` John W. Linville
2005-09-23 18:31     ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2005-08-30 18:09 [patch 2.6.13] swiotlb: add swiotlb_sync_single_range_for_{cpu,device} John W. Linville
2005-09-12 14:48 ` [patch 2.6.13 0/6] swiotlb maintenance and x86_64 dma_sync_single_range_for_{cpu,device} John W. Linville

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