Re: [PATCH 0/5] fix exhaustion of ZONE_DMA with swiotlb (in x86tree)

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Mon,  8 Sep 2008 18:10:09 +0900
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patchset (against tip/master) fixes the problem that swiotlb
> exhausts ZONE_DMA:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/31/16
> 
> The root problem is that swiotlb_alloc_coherent always use ZONE_DMA,
> which is fine for IA64 but not for x86_64.
> 
> This patchset makes the callers set up the gfp flags so that
> swiotlb_alloc_coherent can stop playing with the gfp flags.
> 
> I think that it would be better to remove the allocation code in
> swiotlb_alloc_coherent theoretically (what swiotlb should do is taking
> care of the swiotlb memory. And swiotlb_alloc_coherent is not useful
> since we use it only when we can't allocate memory reachable by the
> device or we are in out of memory). But that code works for both x86
> and IA64 so it's not so bad, I guess.
> 
> #1 is for IA64, #2-4 for x86, and #5 is for swiotlb.
> 

Thanks, works well for me :)

Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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