RE: [PATCH V5 0/2] Change vring space from nomal memory to dma coherent memory

[Sherry Sun]

Hi Greg,

> Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 0/2] Change vring space from nomal memory to dma
> coherent memory
> 
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 10:03:03AM +0800, Sherry Sun wrote:
> > Changes in V5:
> > 1. Reorganize the vop_mmap function code in patch 1, which is done by
> Christoph.
> > 2. Completely remove the unnecessary code related to reassign the used
> > ring for card in patch 2.
> >
> > The original vop driver only supports dma coherent device, as it
> > allocates and maps vring by _get_free_pages and dma_map_single, but
> > not use dma_sync_single_for_cpu/device to sync the updates of
> > device_page/vring between EP and RC, which will cause memory
> > synchronization problem for device don't support hardware dma coherent.
> >
> > And allocate vrings use dma_alloc_coherent is a common way in kernel,
> > as the memory interacted between two systems should use consistent
> > memory to avoid caching effects. So here add noncoherent platform
> support for vop driver.
> > Also add some related dma changes to make sure noncoherent platform
> > works well.
> >
> > Sherry Sun (2):
> >   misc: vop: change the way of allocating vrings and device page
> >   misc: vop: do not allocate and reassign the used ring
> >
> >  drivers/misc/mic/bus/vop_bus.h     |   2 +
> >  drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_boot.c   |   9 ++
> >  drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_main.c   |  43 ++------
> >  drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_debugfs.c |   4 -
> >  drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_main.c    |  70 +-----------
> >  drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c  | 166 ++++++++++-------------------
> >  include/uapi/linux/mic_common.h    |   9 +-
> >  7 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 218 deletions(-)
> 
> Have you all seen:
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> 
> Looks like this code is asking to just be deleted, is that ok with you?

Yes, I saw that patch. I'm ok with it.

Best regards
Sherry

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h