Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:53:33 -0600 | From | Grant Grundler <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] block layer support for DMA IOMMU bypass mode II |
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 02:22:44AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > What do you mean? You map only one 4K chunk, and this is used > > for all the sub-1K mappings. > > How should this work when the 1K mappings are spread all over memory?
It couldn't merge in this case.
> Maybe I'm missing something but from James description it sounds like the > block layer assumes that it can pass in a sglist with arbitary elements > and get it back remapped to continuous DMA addresses.
In the x86-64 case, If the 1k elements are not physically contigous, I think most of them would get their own mapping.
For x86-64, if an entry ends on a 4k alignment and the next one starts on a 4k alignment, could those be merged into one DMA segment that uses two adjacent mapping entries?
Anyway, using a 4k FS block size (eg ext2) would be more efficient by allowing a 1:1 of SG elements and DMA mappings.
grant
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