Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jul 2003 11:37:33 -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 07:20:26PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: ... > > Can two adjacent IOMMU entries be used to map two 1K buffers? > > Assume the 1st buffer ends on a 4k alignment and the next one > > starts on a 4k alignment. > > Yes, it could. But is that situation likely/worth to handle?
Probably. It would reduce the number of mappings by 25% (3 instead of 4). My assumption is two adjecent IOMMU entries have contigious bus addresses.
I was trying to figure out if x86-64 should be setting BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY to 0 or 4k.
It sounds like x86-64 could support "#define BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY 4096" if the IOMMU code will return one DMA address for two SG list entries in the above example.
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