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* [Intel IOMMU 00/10] Intel IOMMU support, take #2
@ 2007-06-19 21:37 Keshavamurthy, Anil S
  2007-06-19 21:37 ` [Intel IOMMU 01/10] DMAR detection and parsing logic Keshavamurthy, Anil S
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From: Keshavamurthy, Anil S @ 2007-06-19 21:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm, linux-kernel
  Cc: ak, gregkh, muli, suresh.b.siddha, arjan, ashok.raj, davem,
	clameter

Hi All,
	This patch supports the upcomming Intel IOMMU hardware
a.k.a. Intel(R) Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O 
Architecture and the hardware spec for the same can be found here
http://www.intel.com/technology/virtualization/index.htm

	This version of the patches incorporates several 
feedback obtained from previous postings.

Some of the major changes are
1) Removed resource pool (a.k.a. pre-allocate pool) patch
2) For memory allocation in the DMA map api calls we
   now use kmem_cache_alloc() and get_zeroedpage() functions
   to allocate memory for internal data structures and for 
   page table setup memory.
3) The allocation of memory in the DMA map api calls is 
   very critical and to avoid failures during memory allocation
   in the DMA map api calls we evaluated several technique
   a) mempool - We found that mempool is pretty much useless
      if we try to allocate memory with GFP_ATOMIC which is
     our case. Also we found that it is difficult to judge
     how much to reserver during the creation of mempool.
   b) PF_MEMALLOC - When a task flags (current->flags) are
     set with PF_MEMALLOC then watermark checks are avoided
     during the memory allocation.
  We choose to use the latter (option b) and make this as
  a separate patch which can be debated further. Please
  see patch 6/10.

Other minor changes are mostly coding style fixes and 
making sure that checkpatch.pl passes the patches.

Please include this set of patches for next MM release.

Thanks and regards,
-Anil S Keshavamurthy
E-mail: anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com

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2007-06-19 21:37 [Intel IOMMU 00/10] Intel IOMMU support, take #2 Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-19 21:37 ` [Intel IOMMU 01/10] DMAR detection and parsing logic Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-07-04  9:18   ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-04 10:04     ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-04 10:14       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-06-19 21:37 ` [Intel IOMMU 02/10] PCI generic helper function Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-26  5:49   ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-26 14:44     ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-19 21:37 ` [Intel IOMMU 03/10] clflush_cache_range now takes size param Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-19 21:37 ` [Intel IOMMU 04/10] IOVA allocation and management routines Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-26  6:07   ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-26 16:16     ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-19 21:37 ` [Intel IOMMU 05/10] Intel IOMMU driver Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-19 23:32   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-19 23:50     ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-19 23:56       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-26  6:32     ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-26 16:29       ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-26  6:25   ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-26 16:33     ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-26  6:30   ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-19 21:37 ` [Intel IOMMU 06/10] Avoid memory allocation failures in dma map api calls Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-19 23:25   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-19 23:27     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-19 23:34       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-20  0:02         ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-20  8:06   ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-06-20 13:03     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-20 17:30       ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-06-20 18:05         ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-06-20 19:14           ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-20 20:08             ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-06-20 23:03               ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-21  6:10                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-06-21  6:11                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-21  6:29                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-06-21  6:37                       ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-21  7:13                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-06-21 19:51                           ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-21  6:30                     ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-26  5:34     ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-19 21:37 ` [Intel IOMMU 07/10] Intel iommu cmdline option - forcedac Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-19 21:37 ` [Intel IOMMU 08/10] DMAR fault handling support Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-19 21:37 ` [Intel IOMMU 09/10] Iommu Gfx workaround Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-19 21:37 ` [Intel IOMMU 10/10] Iommu floppy workaround Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-26  6:42   ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-26 10:37     ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-26 19:25       ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-26 16:26     ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-26  6:45 ` [Intel IOMMU 00/10] Intel IOMMU support, take #2 Andrew Morton
2007-06-26  7:12   ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-26 11:13     ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-26 15:03       ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-26 15:11         ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-26 15:48           ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-26 16:00             ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-26 15:56       ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-26 15:09         ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-26 15:36           ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-26 15:15         ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-26 15:33           ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-26 16:25             ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-26 17:31               ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-26 20:10                 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-26 22:35                   ` Andi Kleen

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