[Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 1/2] ARM: initial proof-of-concept IOMMU mapper for DMA-mapping
From: vdumpa@nvidia.com (Krishna Reddy)
Date: 2011-10-11 18:13:56
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linux-arch, linux-mm
From: vdumpa@nvidia.com (Krishna Reddy)
Date: 2011-10-11 18:13:56
Also in:
linux-arch, linux-mm
Marek,
It looks that You have simplified arm_iommu_map_sg() function too much. The main advantage of the iommu is to map scattered memory pages into contiguous dma address space. DMA-mapping is allowed to merge consecutive entries in the scatter list if hardware supports that. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1128416
I would update arm_iommu_map_sg() back to coalesce the sg list.
I'm not sure if mmc drivers are aware of coalescing the SG entries together. If not the code must be updated to use dma_sg_len() and the dma entries number returned from dma_map_sg() call.
MMC drivers seem to be aware of coalescing the SG entries together as they are using dma_sg_len(). Let me test and update the patch. -- nvpublic