On 18/04/17 04:24 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Try and write a stacked map_sg function like you describe and you will > see how horrible it quickly becomes. Yes, unfortunately, I have to agree with this statement completely. > Since dma mapping is a performance path we must be careful not to > create intrinsic inefficiencies with otherwise nice layering :) Yeah, I'm also personally thinking your proposal is the way to go as well. Dan's injected ops suggestion is interesting but I can't see how it solves the issue completely. Your proposal is the only one that seems to be complete to me. It just has a few minor pain points which I've already described but are likely manageable and less than the pain stacked dma_ops creates. Logan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
