From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, cooldavid@cooldavid.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jme: Fix DMA unmap warning
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 17:54:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140507215448.GA21071@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140507.164434.997979341700998470.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 04:44:34PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 16:33:17 -0400
>
> > Perhaps a solution is a signalling mechanism tied to completion interrupts?
> > I.e. a mapping failure gets reported to the stack, which causes the
> > correspondnig queue to be stopped, until such time a the driver signals a safe
> > restart by the reception of a tx completion interrupt? I'm actually tinkering
> > right now with a mechanism that provides guidance to the stack as to how many
> > dma descriptors are available in a given net_device that might come in handy
> > here
>
> Another idea is to signal it from the IOMMU unmap itself, since that is the
> point where the resource becomes available.
>
> Actually either approach is fine with me.
>
I'll look into it shortly. Thanks for the idea!
Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-07 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-05 18:51 [PATCH] jme: Fix DMA unmap warning Neil Horman
2014-05-06 20:25 ` Govindarajulu Varadarajan
2014-05-06 20:50 ` Neil Horman
2014-05-06 20:53 ` David Miller
2014-05-06 21:04 ` Govindarajulu Varadarajan
2014-05-06 21:10 ` David Miller
2014-05-07 19:56 ` David Miller
2014-05-07 20:33 ` Neil Horman
2014-05-07 20:44 ` David Miller
2014-05-07 21:54 ` Neil Horman [this message]
2014-05-08 9:02 ` David Laight
2014-05-08 11:00 ` Neil Horman
2014-05-08 11:16 ` David Laight
2014-05-08 17:24 ` David Miller
2014-05-08 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH] net: Provide linear backoff mechanism for constrained resources at the driver Neil Horman
2014-05-09 8:55 ` David Laight
2014-05-09 11:17 ` Neil Horman
2014-05-09 12:53 ` David Laight
2014-05-09 15:33 ` Neil Horman
2014-05-09 15:46 ` David Laight
2014-05-09 17:02 ` Neil Horman
2014-05-18 16:19 ` Neil Horman
2014-05-21 18:05 ` Cong Wang
2014-05-21 18:49 ` Neil Horman
2014-05-11 12:49 ` [PATCH] jme: Fix DMA unmap warning Ben Hutchings
2014-05-11 13:04 ` Neil Horman
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