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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	tony.luck@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] swiotlb: fix dma_alloc_coherent allocation failures with swiotlb
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:09:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877i9sx4nk.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220454224-25985-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> (Joerg Roedel's message of "Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:03:44 +0200")

Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> writes:

> The SWIOTLB version of dma_alloc_coherent allocates all memory with
> GFP_DMA unconditionally. This leads sometimes unnecessary to allocation
> failures. This patch makes the allocation strategy to use the DMA32 zone
> first if this is possible. The changes are boot tested on AMD64 and
> compile tested for i386 and IA64.

The high level dma_alloc_coherent() does that anyways.

The swiotlb fallback really should only allocate from the swiotlb,
nowhere else.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-03 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-03 15:03 [PATCH] swiotlb: fix dma_alloc_coherent allocation failures with swiotlb Joerg Roedel
2008-09-03 18:04 ` [PATCH 0/3] fix swiotlb allocation gfp flag FUJITA Tomonori
2008-09-03 18:04   ` [PATCH 1/3] x86: remove the NULL device hack in dma-mapping.h FUJITA Tomonori
2008-09-03 18:04     ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: set gfp flag properly for swiotlb_alloc_coherent FUJITA Tomonori
2008-09-03 18:04       ` [PATCH 3/3] swiotlb: use GFP_DMA32 instead of GFP_DMA in swiotlb_alloc_coherent FUJITA Tomonori
2008-09-03 20:05         ` Joerg Roedel
2008-09-04  4:11           ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-09-03 18:54     ` [PATCH 1/3] x86: remove the NULL device hack in dma-mapping.h FUJITA Tomonori
2008-09-03 20:01     ` Joerg Roedel
2008-09-04  4:11       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-09-04 10:00         ` Joerg Roedel
2008-09-04 12:50           ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-09-03 18:05 ` [PATCH] swiotlb: fix dma_alloc_coherent allocation failures with swiotlb FUJITA Tomonori
2008-09-03 19:54   ` Joerg Roedel
2008-09-03 20:11     ` Joerg Roedel
2008-09-04  4:11     ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-09-03 22:09 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-09-04  4:11   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-09-04  7:44     ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-04  7:58       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-09-04  8:05         ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-04  8:18           ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-09-04  8:31             ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-04  9:49               ` Joerg Roedel

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