Re: virt_to_page/pci_map_page vs. pci_map_single

[James Bottomley]

    Jamie> The Document/DMA-mapping.txt in 2.6.0-test9 says "To map a
    Jamie> single region, you do:" and then shows pci_map_single.  Is
    Jamie> DMA-mapping.txt in need of patching?
    
    Sounds like it needs an update.
    
Erm, I don't think so.  pci_map_single() covers a different use case
from pci_map_page().

The thing pci_map_single() can do that pci_map_page() can't is cope with
contiguous regions greater than PAGE_SIZE in length (which you get
either from kmalloc() or __get_free_pages()).  This feature is used in
the SCSI layer for instance.

There has been talk of deprecating dma_map_single() in favour of
dma_map_sg() (i.e. make all transfers use scatter/gather and eliminate
dma_map_single() in favour of a single sg entry table) but nothing has
been done about it (at least as far as I know).

James


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