Re: [PATCH] x86: enable DMA CMA with swiotlb

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/21/2013 07:02 AM, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> 
> I want to use DMA CMA for the feature that requires a single huge chunk
> (about 64MB) of host memory.

That is tautological.  "I want to use the Contiguous Memory Allocator to
allocate contiguous memory."

> Please refer 3 of 24 in:
> http://www.jedec.org/sites/default/files/T_Fujisawa_MF_2013.pdf

But yes, it makes sense that a device using host memory would not be
able to leverage swiotlb, because the software simply has no clue what
the DMA transactions are.  In that sense it is fundamentally different
from a real IOTLB.

	-hpa

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