Re: [PATCH 07/10] crypto: Use ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN instead of ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN

Isaac Manjarres
2022-09-21T00:47:44Z

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 06:53:43PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> So do I but holidays get in the way ;). I plan to refresh my kmalloc
> minalign series at the end of August.
>
> One significant change I have though is that now ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
> now goes down all the way to 8 and using swiotlb bounce buffering if the
> DMA mapping size is small.

Hi Catalin,

This sounds like a good idea for optimizing kmalloc's memory usage
beyond what this series originally achieved. I'm sure a few other things
have come up in the meantime, but I was curious to know if you had a
chance to get back to this?

Thanks,
Isaac