Re: [PATCH] swiotlb: Fix inversed DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN test

[Michel DÃnzer]

On 2018-05-02 06:21 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 04:31:09PM +0200, Michel DÃnzer wrote:
>>> No.  __GFP_NOWARN (and gfp_t flags in general) are the wrong interface
>>> for dma allocations and just cause problems.  I actually plan to
>>> get rid of the gfp_t argument in dma_alloc_attrs sooner, and only
>>> allow either GFP_KERNEL or GFP_DMA passed in dma_alloc_coherent.
>>
>> How about GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT? TTM uses that to opportunistically
>> allocate huge pages (GFP_TRANSHUGE can result in unacceptably long
>> delays with memory pressure).
> 
> Well, that is exactly what I don't want drivers to do - same for
> __GFP_COMP in some drm code.  This very much assumes the page allocator
> is used to back dma allocations, which very often it actually isn't, and
> any use of magic gfp flags creates a tight coupling of consumers with a
> specific implementation.
> 
> In general I can't think of a good reason not to actually use
> GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT by default in the dma allocator unless
> DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_SINGLE_PAGES is set.  Can you prepare a patch for that?

I'm afraid I'll have to leave that to somebody else.


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