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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] dma: Add barrierless dma mapping/unmapping api
FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:30:10 +1100
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 18:35 -0800, adharmap@codeaurora.org wrote:
>>> From: Abhijeet Dharmapurikar <adharmap@quicinc.com>
>>>
>
>> There are people nowadays putting AXI bridges and the whole ARM
>> paraphernalia of IP cores behind them on PowerPC cores for example and I
>> can see that happening with x86 as well.
>>
>> In your case, I believe your are fixing the wrong problem anyways. The
>> right approach would be instead to put all your buffer into an sglist
>> and use dma_map/unmap_sg().
>
> Agreed again. That's exactly what I suggested before:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126294076917753&w=2

I somehow missed your post, my apologies. Agreed that dma_map/unmap_sg
would be the correct api to use here, however they still call the
dmac_.*_range to map buffers. I could change those calls to do a barrier
only after mapping the last buffer. This would be much more cleaner
than introducing a .*_nobarrier API.

Thanks for all the replies.



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