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From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	andi@firstfloor.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] x86 dma_*_coherent rework patchset
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:06:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080812160658.GH30426@il.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1218554657-16070-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com>

[added Andi to CC]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 05:24:10PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this patchset reworks the dma_*_coherent functions in the DMA layer
> for the x86 architecture. The patch series extends the existing DMA
> backends with missing *coherent callbacks and simplifies the generic
> function to basically only call the registered backend. This allows
> future optimizations in hardware specific IOMMU implementations.
> The code ist tested on AMD64 with AMD IOMMU and GART as well as on
> my old 486 box. It is not yet tested on a Calgary IOMMU system.

Now it is---appears to work fine on a Calgary system.

In general the patchset looks good and is definitely a step in the
right direction. I am a bit concerned about the contortions that the
generic dma_alloc_coherent went through before calling the ops
version---have you verified they are no longer needed?

Cheers,
Muli
-- 
Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '08)
Co-located with OSDI '08, Dec 2008, San Diego, CA
http://www.usenix.org/wiov08

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-12 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-12 15:24 [PATCH 0/7] x86 dma_*_coherent rework patchset Joerg Roedel
2008-08-12 15:24 ` [PATCH 1/7] x86: add alloc_coherent dma_ops callback to GART driver Joerg Roedel
2008-08-13  0:45   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-08-13 12:46     ` Joerg Roedel
2008-08-13 20:46       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-08-12 15:24 ` [PATCH 2/7] x86: add free_coherent " Joerg Roedel
2008-08-13  0:45   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-08-13 12:49     ` Joerg Roedel
2008-08-12 15:24 ` [PATCH 3/7] x86: add free_coherent dma_ops callback to Calgary IOMMU driver Joerg Roedel
2008-08-12 16:07   ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-08-12 15:24 ` [PATCH 4/7] x86: add alloc_coherent dma_ops callback to NOMMU driver Joerg Roedel
2008-08-12 18:24   ` Joerg Roedel
2008-08-12 15:24 ` [PATCH 5/7] x86: add free_coherent " Joerg Roedel
2008-08-12 15:24 ` [PATCH 6/7] x86: cleanup dma_*_coherent functions Joerg Roedel
2008-08-13  0:45   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-08-13 12:51     ` Joerg Roedel
2008-08-12 15:24 ` [PATCH 7/7] x86, AMD IOMMU: remove obsolete FIXME comment Joerg Roedel
2008-08-12 16:06 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2008-08-12 16:49   ` [PATCH 0/7] x86 dma_*_coherent rework patchset Joerg Roedel
2008-08-13  0:51 ` FUJITA Tomonori

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