Christoph Hellwig wrote:

quoted

I think this is the wrong level of interface exposed.  Just add two hepler
kmap_atomic_sg/kunmap_atomic_sg that gurantee to map/unmap a sg list entry,
even if it's bigger than a page.

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:33:45PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

Why bother mapping anything larger than a page, when none of the users 
need it?
P.S. In your scheme you would need four helpers; you forgot kmap_sg() 
and kunmap_sg().

The scheme hch suggested is highly invasive in the area of architecture-
specific fixmap layout and introduces a dependency of fixmap layout on
maximum segment size, which may make it current normal maximum segment
sizes use prohibitive amounts of vmallocspace on 32-bit architectures.

So I'd drop that suggestion, though it's not particularly farfetched.


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