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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Cc: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, timur@codeaurora.org,
	cov@codeaurora.org, Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] net: ethernet: mellanox: correct page conversion
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 07:32:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160418143255.GA15203@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160418065447.GA11539@x-vnc01.mtx.labs.mlnx>

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 09:54:47AM +0300, Eli Cohen wrote:
> Sinan,
> 
> if we get rid of the part this code:
> 
>                 if (BITS_PER_LONG == 64) {
>                         struct page **pages;
>                         pages = kmalloc(sizeof *pages * buf->nbufs, gfp);
>                         if (!pages)
>                                 goto err_free;
>                         ...
>                         ...
>                         if (!buf->direct.buf)
>                                 goto err_free;
>                 }
> 
> Does that solve the arm issue?

Not quite.  You still have code in mlx4_en_map_buffer that performs
this mapping later if it it wasn't mapped in mlx4_buf_alloc.

You'll need to get rid of that by ensuring max_direct for all the cases
currently using mlx4_en_map_buffer as well.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-18 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-16 22:23 [PATCH V2] net: ethernet: mellanox: correct page conversion Sinan Kaya
2016-04-18  4:00 ` David Miller
2016-04-18  5:06   ` okaya
2016-04-18 15:59     ` David Miller
2016-04-18 16:06       ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-18  6:54 ` Eli Cohen
2016-04-18 13:53   ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-18 14:05     ` Eli Cohen
2016-04-18 14:32   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-04-18 14:39     ` Eli Cohen
2016-04-18 15:17       ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-18 15:21         ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-18 15:40           ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-18 17:47             ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-19  7:50             ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-18 12:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-18 13:06   ` okaya
2016-04-18 13:10     ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-18 13:49       ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-18 13:59         ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-18 15:15         ` Timur Tabi
2016-04-18 15:22           ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-19 18:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-19 18:37   ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-20 11:08     ` Eran Ben Elisha
2016-04-20 13:35   ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-20 13:38     ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-20 13:41       ` Timur Tabi
2016-04-20 18:40     ` Eran Ben Elisha
2016-04-20 18:42       ` Sinan Kaya

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