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From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] enhance DMA CMA on x86
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:49:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <542B5DC2.8020806@hurleysoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1410010131380.4455@nanos>

On 09/30/2014 07:45 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Whether the proposed patchset is the correct solution to support it is
> a completely different question.

This patchset has been in mainline since 3.16 and has already caused
regressions, so the question of whether this is the correct solution has
already been answered.

> So either you stop this right now and help Akinobu to find the proper
> solution 

If this is only a test platform for ARM parts then I don't think it
unreasonable to suggest forking x86 swiotlb support into a iommu=cma
selector that gets DMA mapping working for this test platform and doesn't
cause a bunch of breakage.

Which is different than if the plan is to ship production units for x86;
then a general purpose solution will be required.

As to the good design of a general purpose solution for allocating and
mapping huge order pages, you are certainly more qualified to help Akinobu
than I am.

Regards,
Peter Hurley


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-01  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-15 13:08 [PATCH v3 0/5] enhance DMA CMA on x86 Akinobu Mita
2014-04-15 13:08 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] x86: make dma_alloc_coherent() return zeroed memory if CMA is enabled Akinobu Mita
2014-04-16 19:44   ` Andrew Morton
2014-04-17 15:40     ` Akinobu Mita
2014-04-15 13:08 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] x86: enable DMA CMA with swiotlb Akinobu Mita
2014-04-15 13:08 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] intel-iommu: integrate DMA CMA Akinobu Mita
2014-04-15 13:08 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] memblock: introduce memblock_alloc_range() Akinobu Mita
2014-04-15 13:08 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] cma: add placement specifier for "cma=" kernel parameter Akinobu Mita
2014-09-27 14:30 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] enhance DMA CMA on x86 Peter Hurley
2014-09-28  0:31   ` Akinobu Mita
2014-09-29 12:09     ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-29 14:32       ` Akinobu Mita
2014-09-30 14:34         ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-30 23:23           ` Akinobu Mita
2014-09-30 23:45           ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-30 23:49             ` Peter Hurley
2014-10-01  1:49             ` Peter Hurley [this message]
2014-10-01  9:05               ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-02 16:41               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-10-02 22:03                 ` Peter Hurley
2014-10-02 23:08                   ` Akinobu Mita
2014-10-03 13:40                     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-10-03 14:27                     ` Peter Hurley
2014-10-03 16:06                       ` Akinobu Mita
2014-10-03 16:33                         ` konrad wilk
2014-10-03 16:39                         ` Peter Hurley
2014-10-05  6:01                           ` Akinobu Mita

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