Re: [PATCH 2/4] RDMA/core: Set DMA parameters correctly

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On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 11:10:12AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > device->dma_device could be pointing to parent if the caller
> > did not provide dma_ops. So wont this update the parent device
> > dma params?
> 
> That's correct, this will update the parent device DMA parameters.
> 
> > Also do we want to ensure all callers device max_seg_sz
> > params >= threshold (=2G)? If so, perhaps we can do something
> > similar to vb2_dma_contig_set_max_seg_size()
> > 
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.4-rc2/source/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-dma-contig.c#L734
> 
> It depends on what PCIe RDMA adapters support. If all PCIe RDMA adapters
> supported by the Linux kernel support max_segment_size >= 2G the above code
> is probably the easiest approach.

All drivers chop the sgls up into whatever size they support, unlike
block we don't need the dma mapper to produce sgls in specific formats.

Jason



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