Re: [PATCH] x86: avoid unnecessary low zone allocation in AMDIOMMU's alloc_coherent

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:53:47 +0200
Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:37:45PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:10:32 +0200
> > Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Can't we simply make the gfp hacks depend on
> > > dma_ops->is_phys and avoid further gfp hacks in the hardware iommu
> > > implementations?
> > 
> > I thought about it but adding a new dma_ops->we_don't_want_gfp_flag
> > hook doesn't make the code simpler much. Currently, we have the gfp
> > setting hack in just one place. It's not bad. Adding such new hook
> > means adding more lines than we can remove.
> 
> The is_phys flas is already in place and its meaning is "the dma_ops
> return bus addresses equal to physical addresses". This is exactly the
> case when we need the gfp hacks. So I don't see a problem in just
> skipping the gfp rewrite if is_phys is zero. I don't see a point in
> adding gfp flags in dma_alloc_coherent and remove them again
> dma_ops->alloc_coherent code. Specially in this case where we already
> know in dma_alloc_coherent if we really need the flag rewrite.

dma_ops->is_phys doesn't work well for GART and Intel IOMMU, that do
virtual mappings for some devices and doesn't for some.

We need to a hook that can pass a point to a device to IOMMUs like:

dma_ops->is_phys(struct device *dev)


Because they need to look at a device to know if they will do virtual
mappings or not for it.
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