Re: [PATCH v7 05/15] swiotlb: Add a new get_io_tlb_mem getter

Claire Chang
2021-05-25T03:16:45Z

On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 11:51 PM Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 02:51:52PM +0800, Claire Chang wrote:
> > Still keep this function because directly using dev->dma_io_tlb_mem
> > will cause issues for memory allocation for existing devices. The pool
> > can't support atomic coherent allocation so we need to distinguish the
> > per device pool and the default pool in swiotlb_alloc.
>
> This above should really be rolled in the commit. You can prefix it by
> "The reason it was done this way was because directly using .."
>

Will add it.