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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: okaya@codeaurora.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, timur@codeaurora.org,
	cov@codeaurora.org, Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] net: ethernet: mellanox: correct page conversion
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 06:10:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160418131058.GA25421@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0c6a430c5f0ec64f51d7c594ef9751dd@codeaurora.org>

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 09:06:18AM -0400, okaya@codeaurora.org wrote:
> On 2016-04-18 08:12, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 06:23:32PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> >>Current code is assuming that the address returned by dma_alloc_coherent
> >>is a logical address. This is not true on ARM/ARM64 systems.
> >
> >Can you explain what you mean with a 'logical address' and what actual
> >issue you're trying to solve?
> 
> Vmap call is failing on arm64 systems because dma alloc api already returns
> an address mapped with vmap.

Please state your problem clearly.  What I'm reverse engineering from
your posts is:  because dma_alloc_coherent uses vmap-like mappings on
arm64 (all, some systems?) a driver using a lot of them might run into
limits of the vmap pool size.

Is this correct?

> 
> Please see arch/arm64/mm directory.
---end quoted text---

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-18 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-16 22:23 [PATCH V2] net: ethernet: mellanox: correct page conversion Sinan Kaya
2016-04-18  4:00 ` David Miller
2016-04-18  5:06   ` okaya
2016-04-18 15:59     ` David Miller
2016-04-18 16:06       ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-18  6:54 ` Eli Cohen
2016-04-18 13:53   ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-18 14:05     ` Eli Cohen
2016-04-18 14:32   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-18 14:39     ` Eli Cohen
2016-04-18 15:17       ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-18 15:21         ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-18 15:40           ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-18 17:47             ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-19  7:50             ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-18 12:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-18 13:06   ` okaya
2016-04-18 13:10     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-04-18 13:49       ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-18 13:59         ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-18 15:15         ` Timur Tabi
2016-04-18 15:22           ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-19 18:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-19 18:37   ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-20 11:08     ` Eran Ben Elisha
2016-04-20 13:35   ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-20 13:38     ` Sinan Kaya
2016-04-20 13:41       ` Timur Tabi
2016-04-20 18:40     ` Eran Ben Elisha
2016-04-20 18:42       ` Sinan Kaya

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