Re: [PATCH v3] swiotlb: Make SWIOTLB_NO_FORCE perform no allocation

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Fri Apr 09 2021 - 16:33:12 EST




On 4/9/2021 12:32 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 08:13:07PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 3/24/2021 1:42 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 06:53:49PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>>> When SWIOTLB_NO_FORCE is used, there should really be no allocations of
>>>> default_nslabs to occur since we are not going to use those slabs. If a
>>>> platform was somehow setting swiotlb_no_force and a later call to
>>>> swiotlb_init() was to be made we would still be proceeding with
>>>> allocating the default SWIOTLB size (64MB), whereas if swiotlb=noforce
>>>> was set on the kernel command line we would have only allocated 2KB.
>>>>
>>>> This would be inconsistent and the point of initializing default_nslabs
>>>> to 1, was intended to allocate the minimum amount of memory possible, so
>>>> simply remove that minimal allocation period.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Looks good,
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>>>
>>
>> Thanks! Konrad, can you apply this patch to your for-linus-5.13 branch
>> if you are also happy with it?
>
> It should be now visible?

Not seeing it here:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb.git/log/?h=devel/for-linus-5.13
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Florian