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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] xen: swiotlb support for Xen dom0
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 13:19:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090508111943.GH11596@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241741842-7966-1-git-send-email-jeremy@goop.org>


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> This branch adds the swiotlb hooks for Xen dom0.  We use swiotlb to handle
> various device drivers which assume that multipage DMA transfers which are
> contigious in kernel memory are also contigious in machine memory (mostly
> lower-performance devices, as high-performance ones already do a good job
> of scatter-gather).
> 
> Following Fujita's suggestion, these changes remove a lot of the
> placeholder stubs in arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c and moves them into
> the Xen-specific arch/x86/xen/pci-swiotlb.c.  (It still relies on
> overriding the weak functions defined in lib/swiotlb.c.)
> 
> The following changes since commit 2af252ab26150b4411889c9eaf1af4c5bf03de78:
>   Jeremy Fitzhardinge (1):
>         xen: checkpatch cleanups
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git xen-tip/for-ingo/dom0/swiotlb
> 
> Ian Campbell (4):
>       xen swiotlb: fixup swiotlb is chunks smaller than MAX_CONTIG_ORDER
>       xen: add hooks for mapping phys<->bus addresses in swiotlb
>       xen/swiotlb: add swiotlb_arch_range_needs_mapping hook for xen
>       xen: enable swiotlb for xen domain 0.
> 
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge (5):
>       xen: make sure swiotlb allocation is physically contigious
>       swiotlb: use swiotlb_alloc_boot to allocate emergency pool
>       xen/swiotlb: improve comment on gfp flags in xen_alloc_coherent()
>       xen/swiotlb: add sync functions
>       xen/swiotlb: update to new new dma_ops
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c |   30 ++--------
>  arch/x86/xen/Kconfig          |    1 +
>  arch/x86/xen/Makefile         |    1 +
>  arch/x86/xen/pci-swiotlb.c    |   53 ++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/pci/xen-iommu.c       |  123 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  include/xen/swiotlb.h         |   18 ++++++
>  lib/swiotlb.c                 |    3 +-
>  7 files changed, 168 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/x86/xen/pci-swiotlb.c
>  create mode 100644 include/xen/swiotlb.h

Ok, this looks good to me at a quick glance and it makes quite a bit 
of sense - but it would be nice to get the acks (or reviewed-by 
tags) of Fujita-san and Joerg, and address any review feedback and 
if everything is resolved, propagate those tags into the series.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-08 11:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-08  0:17 [GIT PULL] xen: swiotlb support for Xen dom0 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-08  0:17 ` [PATCH 1/9] xen: make sure swiotlb allocation is physically contigious Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-08  7:47   ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/9] xen: make sure swiotlb allocation isphysically contigious Jan Beulich
2009-05-08 15:51     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-11  3:40   ` [PATCH 1/9] xen: make sure swiotlb allocation is physically contigious FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-11 13:55   ` Joerg Roedel
2009-05-11 18:42     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-08  0:17 ` [PATCH 2/9] xen swiotlb: fixup swiotlb is chunks smaller than MAX_CONTIG_ORDER Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-08  0:17 ` [PATCH 3/9] xen: add hooks for mapping phys<->bus addresses in swiotlb Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-11  3:40   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-11 14:11   ` Joerg Roedel
2009-05-08  0:17 ` [PATCH 4/9] xen/swiotlb: add swiotlb_arch_range_needs_mapping hook for xen Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-11  3:40   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-11 14:16   ` Joerg Roedel
2009-05-08  0:17 ` [PATCH 5/9] xen: enable swiotlb for xen domain 0 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-11  3:40   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-11 14:21   ` Joerg Roedel
2009-05-08  0:17 ` [PATCH 6/9] swiotlb: use swiotlb_alloc_boot to allocate emergency pool Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-08  0:17 ` [PATCH 7/9] xen/swiotlb: improve comment on gfp flags in xen_alloc_coherent() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-08  0:17 ` [PATCH 8/9] xen/swiotlb: add sync functions Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-08  0:17 ` [PATCH 9/9] xen/swiotlb: update to new new dma_ops Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-08 11:19 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-05-11  3:40 ` [GIT PULL] xen: swiotlb support for Xen dom0 FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-11 16:59   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-11 22:45     ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-11 13:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-11 16:57   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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