On 8/5/2013 4:52 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 04:06:20PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
>> The LSI MEGARAID SAS HBA suffers from the problem where it can do
>> 64-bit DMA to streaming buffers but not to consistent buffers.
>> In other words, 64-bit DMA is used for disk data transfers and 32-bit
>> DMA must be used for control message transfers. According to LSI,
>> the firmware is not fully functional yet. This change implements a
>> kind of hybrid dma_ops to support this.
> If this is generic to LSI MegaRAID HBA shouldn't this change also be
> done for the other platforms?
>
> Or perhaps some other changes to make it work with other devices?
No, it's really specific to how tilegx maps the 64-bit PCI space, 32-bit PCI space, and memory. I'll add more commentary to the git commit message to make this clearer.
>> @@ -573,6 +573,11 @@ int dma_set_coherent_mask(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
>> if (((dma_ops == gx_pci_dma_map_ops) ||
>> (dma_ops == gx_legacy_pci_dma_map_ops)) &&
>> (mask <= DMA_BIT_MASK(32))) {
>> + if (dma_ops == gx_pci_dma_map_ops) {
>> + dma_ops->alloc = tile_swiotlb_alloc_coherent;
>> + dma_ops->free = tile_swiotlb_free_coherent;
>> + }
>> +
> So.. that would change it for all of the devices on the host, not just
> for this specific one. That is not good is it?
Yes, good point; doing it this way might have some performance impact on other devices on the same host. See following email for a revised change that updates the dma_ops pointer for that single device instead.
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Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
http://www.tilera.com
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