On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 03:24:55PM +0100, Christian König wrote: > Yeah, indeed. Bounce buffers are an absolute no-go for GPUs. > > If the DMA API finds that a piece of memory is not directly accessible by > the GPU we need to return an error and not try to use bounce buffers behind > the surface. > > That is something which always annoyed me with the DMA API, which is > otherwise rather cleanly defined. That is exactly what I want to fix with my series to make DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT more useful and always available: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2018-December/031985.html With that you allocate the memory using dma_alloc_attrs with DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT, and use dma_sync_single_* to transfer ownership to the cpu and back to the device, with a gurantee that there won't be any bouncing. So far the interest by the parties that requested the feature has been rather lacklustre, though.
