From: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>,
Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 8/8] videobuf2: handle non-contiguous DMA allocations
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 12:21:33 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAFQd5CgLDkJ3t1aU2PRcGu6cGFjLXOnvMqDg62Z7Zuc8ABVHg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210617100656.GA11107@lst.de>
On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 7:07 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 06:40:58PM +0900, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > Sorry, I meant dma_alloc_attrs() and yes, it's indeed a misnomer. Our
> > use case basically has no need for the additional coherent mapping, so
> > creation of it can be skipped to save some vmalloc space. (Yes, it
> > probably only matters for 32-bit architectures.)
>
> Yes, that is the normal use case, and it is solved by using
> dma_alloc_noncoherent or dma_alloc_noncontigous without the vmap
> step.
True, silly me. Probably not enough coffee at the time I was looking at it.
With that, wouldn't it be possible to completely get rid of
dma_alloc_{coherent,attrs}() and use dma_alloc_noncontiguous() +
optional kernel and/or userspace mapping helper everywhere? (Possibly
renaming it to something as simple as dma_alloc().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-18 3:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-27 13:13 [PATCHv2 0/8] videobuf2: support new noncontiguous DMA API Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-04-27 13:13 ` [PATCHv2 1/8] videobuf2: rework vb2_mem_ops API Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-04-27 13:13 ` [PATCHv2 2/8] videobuf2: inverse buffer cache_hints flags Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-04-27 13:13 ` [PATCHv2 3/8] videobuf2: split buffer cache_hints initialisation Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-04-27 13:13 ` [PATCHv2 4/8] videobuf2: move cache_hints handling to allocators Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-04-27 13:13 ` [PATCHv2 5/8] videobuf2: add V4L2_MEMORY_FLAG_NON_COHERENT flag Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-04-27 13:13 ` [PATCHv2 6/8] videobuf2: add queue memory coherency parameter Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-04-27 13:13 ` [PATCHv2 7/8] videobuf2: handle V4L2_MEMORY_FLAG_NON_COHERENT flag Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-05-01 3:48 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-06-03 11:32 ` Hans Verkuil
2021-06-17 1:46 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-04-27 13:13 ` [PATCHv2 8/8] videobuf2: handle non-contiguous DMA allocations Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-04-28 6:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-03 11:59 ` Hans Verkuil
2021-06-17 7:56 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-06-17 8:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-17 8:30 ` Tomasz Figa
2021-06-17 8:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-17 9:40 ` Tomasz Figa
2021-06-17 10:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-18 3:21 ` Tomasz Figa [this message]
2021-06-18 4:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-18 4:44 ` Tomasz Figa
2021-06-22 7:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-07 12:42 ` Tomasz Figa
2021-06-25 3:10 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-07-07 12:48 ` Tomasz Figa
2021-07-07 13:29 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-07-07 14:10 ` Tomasz Figa
2021-07-09 7:20 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-06-17 7:56 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
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