Re: [PATCH 02/11] iommu-api: Add iommu_map and iommu_unmap functions

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Sun Feb 07 2010 - 04:39:22 EST


On 01/28/2010 01:37 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
These two functions provide support for mapping and
unmapping physical addresses to io virtual addresses. The
difference to the iommu_(un)map_range() is that the new
functions take a gfp_order parameter instead of a size. This
allows the IOMMU backend implementations to detect easier if
a given range can be mapped by larger page sizes.
These new functions should replace the old ones in the long
term.

These seem to be less flexible in the long term. Sure, it is easier for the backend to map to multiple page sizes if your iommu supports arbitrary power-of-two page sizes, but we should make the APIs easier for the callers, not the backend.


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