[PATCH 06/11] ttm/driver: Expand ttm_backend_func to include two overrides for TTM page pool.

Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom at vmware.com
Tue Nov 1 07:48:24 PDT 2011


On 11/01/2011 03:37 PM, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:40:54AM +0200, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
>    
>> Konrad,
>>
>> I was hoping that we could get rid of the dma_address shuffling into
>> core TTM,
>> like I mentioned in the review. From what I can tell it's now only
>> used in the backend and
>> core ttm doesn't care about it.
>>
>> Is there a particular reason we're still passing it around?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> /Thomas
>>
>>      
> I am working on patchset on top of this that will move dma handling
> back to driver and mostly out of ttm (the page alloc helper will
> still do dma stuff on behalf of driver) So if my patchset is acceptable
> the dma situation is transionary.
>
> Cheers,
> Jerome
>    
Cool.

Thanks, Jerome.

/Thomas



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