Re: [patch 2.6.13 0/6] swiotlb maintenance and x86_64 dma_sync_single_range_for_{cpu,device}

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Sep 22 2005 - 15:42:22 EST


On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:37:46PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> >Conduct some maintenance of the swiotlb code:
> >
> > -- Move the code from arch/ia64/lib to lib
>
> I agree that this code needs to move up out of arch/ia64, it is messy
> that x86_64 needs to reach over and grab this from arch/ia64.
>
> But is "lib" really the right place for it to move to? Perhaps
> a more logical place might be "drivers/pci/swiotlb/" since this
> code is tightly coupled to pci?

It should just go away once the GFP_DMA32 code is merged.
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