Re: [RFC PATCH 04/15] lib/scatterlist: Add flag for indicating P2PDMA segments in an SGL

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:07 PM Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 2020-12-09 6:22 p.m., Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 8:47 AM Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> On 2020-11-09 2:12 a.m., Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:00:25AM -0700, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> >>>> We make use of the top bit of the dma_length to indicate a P2PDMA
> >>>> segment.
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> >>> I don't think "we" can.  There is nothing limiting the size of a SGL
> >>> segment.
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> >> Yes, I expected this would be the unacceptable part. Any alternative ideas?
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> > Why is the SG_P2PDMA_FLAG needed as compared to checking the SGL
> > segment-pages for is_pci_p2pdma_page()?
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> Because the DMA and page segments in the SGL aren't necessarily aligned...
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> The IOMMU implementations can coalesce multiple pages into fewer DMA
> address ranges, so the page pointed to by sg->page_link may not be the
> one that corresponds to the address in sg->dma_address for a given segment.
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> If that makes sense -- it's not the easiest thing to explain.

It does...

Did someone already grab, or did you already consider the 3rd
available bit in page_link? AFAICS only SG_CHAIN and SG_END are
reserved. However, if you have a CONFIG_64BIT dependency for
user-directed p2pdma that would seem to allow SG_P2PDMA_FLAG to be
(0x4) in page_link.