From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 11 Jan 2017 07:47:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:56580 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S23993883AbdAKGrtLgRdm (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2017 07:47:49 +0100 Received: from localhost (unknown [78.192.101.3]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E3891958; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 06:47:41 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 07:48:03 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Bart Van Assche Cc: Doug Ledford , linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Aurelien Jacquiot , Catalin Marinas , Chris Zankel , David Howells , "David S . Miller" , Fenghua Yu , Geert Uytterhoeven , Geoff Levand , "H . Peter Anvin" , Haavard Skinnemoen , Hans-Christian Egtvedt , Helge Deller , Ingo Molnar , "James E . J . Bottomley" , Jesper Nilsson , Joerg Roedel , Jon Mason , Jonas Bonn , Ley Foon Tan , Mark Salter , Max Filippov , Mikael Starvik , Muli Ben-Yehuda , Rich Felker , Russell King , Stafford Horne , Stefan Kristiansson , Thomas Gleixner , Tony Luck , Will Deacon , x86@kernel.org, Yoshinori Sato , adi-buildroot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-am33-list@redhat.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org, linux-cris-kernel@axis.com, linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linux-metag@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org, openrisc@lists.librecores.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] Move dma_ops from archdata into struct device Message-ID: <20170111064803.GB26893@kroah.com> References: <20170111005648.14988-1-bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> <20170111005648.14988-3-bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170111005648.14988-3-bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 56258 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: linux-mips X-List-ID: linux-mips List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 04:56:41PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Several RDMA drivers, e.g. drivers/infiniband/hw/qib, use the CPU to > transfer data between memory and PCIe adapter. Because of performance > reasons it is important that the CPU cache is not flushed when such > drivers transfer data. Make this possible by allowing these drivers to > override the dma_map_ops pointer. Additionally, introduce the function > set_dma_ops() that will be used by a later patch in this series. When you say things like "additionally", that's a huge flag that this needs to be split up into multiple patches. No need to add set_dma_ops() here in this patch. And I'd argue that it should be dma_ops_set(), and dma_ops_get(), just to keep the namespace sane, but that's probably a different set of patches... thanks, greg k-h