Re: [PATCH] x86: enable DMA CMA with swiotlb

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Nov 20 2013 - 18:48:08 EST


On 11/19/2013 03:32 PM, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> The DMA Contiguous Memory Allocator support on x86 is disabled when
> swiotlb config option is enabled. So DMA CMA is always disabled on
> x86_64 because swiotlb is always enabled. This attempts to support
> for DMA CMA with enabling swiotlb config option.

What is the use case?

-hpa


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