Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] media: uvcvideo: Use dma_alloc_noncontiguos API

[Ricardo Ribalda]

Hi Christoph

Happy new year!

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 12:16 PM . Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 04:13:20PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (20/12/08 13:54), Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > >
> > > In any case, Sergey is going to share a preliminary patch on how the
> > > current API would be used in the V4L2 videobuf2 framework. That should
> > > give us more input on how such a helper could look.
> >
> > HUGE apologies for the previous screw up! I replied in the
> > gmail web-interface and that did not work out as expected
> > (at all, big times).
>
> Actually the previous mail was a mime multipart one, and the plain text
> version displayed just fine here.  My the gmail engineers finally learned
> something after all.
>
> > Another thing to notice is that the new API requires us to have two execution branches
> > in allocators - one for the current API; and one for the new API (if it's supported and
> > if user-space requested non-coherent allocation).
>
> So I think we do want these branches for coherent vs non-coherent as they
> have very different semantics and I do not think that hiding them under
> the same API helps people to understand those vastly different semantics.
>
> OTOH we should look into a fallback for DMA API instances that do not
> support the discontigous allocations.
>
> I think between your comments and those from Ricardo I have a good idea
> for a somewhat updated API.  I'll try to post something in the next days.

Did you have time to look into this?

No hurry, I just want to make sure that I didn't miss anything ;)

Best regards!



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Ricardo Ribalda