Re: [RFC PATCH] dma: Add barrierless dma mapping/unmapping api

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:11:34 -0800
Abhijeet Dharmapurikar <adharmap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:30:10 +1100
> > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 18:35 -0800, adharmap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>> From: Abhijeet Dharmapurikar <adharmap@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
>   >
> >> There are people nowadays putting AXI bridges and the whole ARM
> >> paraphernalia of IP cores behind them on PowerPC cores for example and I
> >> can see that happening with x86 as well.
> >>
> >> In your case, I believe your are fixing the wrong problem anyways. The
> >> right approach would be instead to put all your buffer into an sglist
> >> and use dma_map/unmap_sg().
> > 
> > Agreed again. That's exactly what I suggested before:
> > 
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126294076917753&w=2
> 
> I somehow missed your post, my apologies. Agreed that dma_map/unmap_sg 
> would be the correct api to use here, however they still call the 
> dmac_.*_range to map buffers.

Hmm, sounds like arm's implementation issue. dma_map_sg API doesn't
require such. dma_map_sg API gives what you want, do a sync only after
mapping the last buffer.


> I could change those calls to do a barrier 
>   only after mapping the last buffer. This would be much more cleaner 
> than introducing a .*_nobarrier API.
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