[PATCH v5 1/1] iommu-api: Add map_sg/unmap_sg functions

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:07 AM, joro at 8bytes.org [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 09:56:11AM -0700, Olav Haugan wrote:

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On 8/12/2014 3:48 AM, Rob Clark wrote:

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iirc, one plan for 'flags' was some sort of DONT_FLUSH_TLB flag for
drivers which wanted to map/unmap N buffers with a single flush at the
end.  There might have been some other usages envisioned.

Yes, that was the original intent of the flags for now. I am sure we can
find other uses for this in the future.

Do you have anything else in mind already besides the DONT_FLUSH_TLB
flag?

How is the IOTLB supposed to be flushed when this flag is used?

well, I was thinking one of two ways:

1) add new flush() vfunc.. this, I think, would be most convenient for
drivers using this feature
2) or driver simply doesn't set DONT_FLUSH_TLB flag on the last
{map,unmap}..  that would be slightly more awkward to use, but would
avoid adding a new vfunc

BR,
-R

        Joerg