Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 08/22] Generic ehca headers

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:57:23PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> From: Roland Dreier <rolandd@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The defines of TRUE and FALSE look rather useless.  Why are they needed?
> 
> What is struct ehca_cache for?  It doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
> 
> ehca_kv_to_g() looks completely horrible.  The whole idea of using
> vmalloc()ed kernel memory to do DMA seems unacceptable to me.

When you want to do scatter-gather dma on kernel-virtual contingous
areas allocate the pages individually and map them into kva using
vmap().  Then dma can be performed using dma_map_page, or in case
you have lots of pages dma_map_sg after creating an S/G list.

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