Re: [PATCH v3] swiotlb: Make SWIOTLB_NO_FORCE perform no allocation

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 08:13:07PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
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> 
> On 3/24/2021 1:42 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 06:53:49PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> >> When SWIOTLB_NO_FORCE is used, there should really be no allocations of
> >> default_nslabs to occur since we are not going to use those slabs. If a
> >> platform was somehow setting swiotlb_no_force and a later call to
> >> swiotlb_init() was to be made we would still be proceeding with
> >> allocating the default SWIOTLB size (64MB), whereas if swiotlb=noforce
> >> was set on the kernel command line we would have only allocated 2KB.
> >>
> >> This would be inconsistent and the point of initializing default_nslabs
> >> to 1, was intended to allocate the minimum amount of memory possible, so
> >> simply remove that minimal allocation period.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> > 
> > Looks good,
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> > 
> 
> Thanks! Konrad, can you apply this patch to your for-linus-5.13 branch
> if you are also happy with it?

It should be now visible?
> -- 
> Florian