Thread (36 messages) 36 messages, 9 authors, 2022-01-20

Re: Phyr Starter

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2022-01-20 14:00:58
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 11:01:42AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
Then we are we using get_user_phyr() at all if we are just storing it
in a sg?
I think we need to stop calling the output of the phyr dma map
helper a sg.  Yes, a { dma_addr, len } tuple is scatter/gather I/O in its
purest form, but it will need a different name in Linux as the scatterlist
will have to stay around for a long time before all that mess is cleaned
up.
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