Re: [Regression] b1a000d3b8ec ("block: relax direct io memory alignment")

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 04:31:45PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 10:04:19AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 12:40:13AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > Hello Guys,
> > > 
> > > Turns out host controller's DMA alignment is often too relax, so two DMA
> > > buffers may cross same cache line easily, and trigger the warning of
> > > "cacheline tracking EEXIST, overlapping mappings aren't supported".
> > > 
> > > The attached test code can trigger the warning immediately with CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG
> > > enabled when reading from one scsi disk which queue DMA alignment is 3.
> > > 
> > 
> > We should not allow smaller than cache line alignment on architectures
> > that are not cache coherent indeed.
> 
> Yes, something like the following change:

We only really need this if the architecture support cache incoherent
DMA.  Maybe even as a runtime setting.





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