> > > Do lots of drivers need the reverse mapping? It wasn't on my todo list
> > > yet.
> >
> > I am against any API which provides this. It can be extremely
> > expensive to do this on some architectures,
The implementation I posted needed no architecture-specific
knowledge. If cost is the issue, fine -- this makes it finite,
(not infinite), and some drivers can eliminate that cost.
> > and since the rest
> > of the PCI dma API does not provide such an interface neither
> > should the pool routines.
>
> The API I hacked together for uhci.c didn't have this.
But it didn't handle the OHCI done-list processing, and we've heard
a lot more about pci_*_consistent being needed with OHCI than
with UHCI; it's more common on non-Intel architectures.
Given that some hardware must return the dma addresses, why
should it be a good thing to have an API that doesn't expose
the notion of a reverse mapping? At this level -- not the lower
level code touching hardware PTEs.
- Dave
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