Re: [PATCH -mm 0/3] convert IOMMUs to use iova

[Muli Ben-Yehuda]

On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 02:05:39AM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:

> This patchset convert the PPC64 IOMMU to use the iova code for free
> area management.
> 
> The IOMMUs ignores low level drivers' restrictions, the maximum
> segment size and segment boundary.
> 
> I fixed the former:
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/35602
> 
> The latter makes the free area management complicated. I'd like to
> convert IOMMUs to use the iova code (that intel-iommu introduced)
> for free area management and enable iova to handle segment boundary
> restrictions, rather than fixing all the IOMMUs' free area
> management,

In general it sounds like a great idea, but have you looked at what
impact this has on the performance of the IO path?

Cheers,
Muli
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