Re: [PATCH] swiotlb: set IO TLB segment size via cmdline

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Sep 14 2021 - 11:30:55 EST


On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 05:29:07PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> I'm not convinced the swiotlb use describe there falls under "intended
> use" - mapping a 1280x720 framebuffer in a single chunk? (As an aside,
> the bottom of this page is also confusing, as following "Then we can
> confirm the modified swiotlb size in the boot log:" there is a log
> fragment showing the same original size of 64Mb.

It doesn't. We also do not add hacks to the kernel for whacky out
of tree modules.