On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 02:21:40PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> And just another general comment, swiotlb + bounce buffers isn't
> really useful on GPUs. You may have 10-100s of MBs of memory mapped
> long term into the GPU's address space for random access. E.g., you
> may have buffers in system memory that the display hardware is
> actively scanning out of. For GPUs you should really only enable SME
> if IOMMU is enabled in remapping mode. But that is probably beyond
> the discussion here.
Right, but insights into how these things work (or don't work) together
are always welcome. And yes, as 2cc13bb4f59f says:
"... The bounce buffer
code has an upper limit of 256kb for the size of DMA
allocations, which is too small for certain devices and
causes them to fail."
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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