From: Christoph Hellwig

Sent: 22 February 2022 08:47

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Hmm.. for this specific case, What about allocating two buffers
for DMA_TO_DEVICE and DMA_FROM_DEVICE at initialization time?

That will work, but I don't see the benefit as you'd still need to call
dma_sync_single* before and after each data transfer.

For systems with an iommu that should save all the iommu setup
for every transfer.
I'd also guess that it saves worrying about the error path
when the dma_map fails (eg because the iommu has no space).

OTOH the driver would be 'hogging' iommu space, so maybe
allocate during open() (or equivalent).

	David

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