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From: Keith Busch <[email protected]>
To: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Keith Busch <[email protected]>,
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], Alexander Viro <[email protected]>,
	Kernel Team <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 0/7] dma mapping optimisations
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 10:46:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YvKPTGf56v/[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 08:46:13AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>  - the DMA streaming ops (dma_map_*) are only intended for short term
>    mappings, not for long living ones that can lead to starvation.
>    Especially with swiotlb, but also with some IOMMUs.  I think this
>    needs to be changed to an API that can allocate DMA mapped memory
>    using dma_alloc_noncoherent/dma_alloc_noncontigious for the device
>    and then give access to that to the user instead

I am a bit reluctant to require a new memory allocator to use the feature. I'm
also generally not concerned about the odd resource constrained IOMMU. User
space drivers pre-map all their memory resources up front, and this is
essentially the same concept.

For swiotlb, though, we can error out the mapping if the requested memory uses
swiotlb with the device: the driver's .dma_map() can return ENOTSUPP if
is_swiotlb_buffer() is true. Would that be more acceptable?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-09 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-05 16:24 [PATCHv3 0/7] dma mapping optimisations Keith Busch
2022-08-05 16:24 ` [PATCHv3 1/7] blk-mq: add ops to dma map bvec Keith Busch
2022-08-05 16:24 ` [PATCHv3 2/7] file: " Keith Busch
2022-08-08  0:21   ` Dave Chinner
2022-08-08  1:13     ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-08-08  2:15       ` Dave Chinner
2022-08-08  2:49         ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-08-08  7:31           ` Dave Chinner
2022-08-08 15:28             ` Keith Busch
2022-08-08 10:14         ` Pavel Begunkov
2022-08-05 16:24 ` [PATCHv3 3/7] iov_iter: introduce type for preregistered dma tags Keith Busch
2022-08-05 16:24 ` [PATCHv3 4/7] block: add dma tag bio type Keith Busch
2022-08-05 16:24 ` [PATCHv3 5/7] io_uring: introduce file slot release helper Keith Busch
2022-08-05 16:24 ` [PATCHv3 6/7] io_uring: add support for dma pre-mapping Keith Busch
2022-08-05 16:24 ` [PATCHv3 7/7] nvme-pci: implement dma_map support Keith Busch
2022-08-09  6:46 ` [PATCHv3 0/7] dma mapping optimisations Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-09 14:18   ` Keith Busch
2022-08-09 18:39     ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-09 16:46   ` Keith Busch [this message]
2022-08-09 18:41     ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-10 18:05       ` Keith Busch
2022-08-11  7:22         ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-31 21:19           ` Keith Busch

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