On 2017/11/7 23:58, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 08:48:38AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> Can't you just use vmalloc and dma_map that? Other drivers follow that
>> approach..
> You can't easily due to the flushing requirements. We used to do that
> in XFS and it led to problems. You need the page allocator + vmap +
> invalidate_kernel_vmap_range + flush_kernel_vmap_range to get the
> cache flushing right.
>
> .
Hi, Christoph Hellwig
Thanks for your suggestion.
Regards
Wei Hu
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