[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v5] drm/i915: stop using swiotlb
hch at lst.de
hch at lst.de
Tue Aug 9 18:51:57 UTC 2022
On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 03:48:02PM +0000, Hellstrom, Thomas wrote:
> This whole thing looks a bit strange to me since with SWIOTLB actually
> used for i915, the driver should malfunction anyway as it doesn't do
> any dma_sync_sg_for_cpu() or dma_sync_sg_for_device(),
Yeah, I can't actually see any syncs in i915.
> and the driver
> assumes all coherent dma. Is that SWIOTLB=force kernel option still
> available?
Yes, although it is (and always has been) lower case swiotlb for the
option.
> Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but the original driver segment size
> appears to mean "the largest contiguous area that can be handled either
> by the device or the dma mapping layer" rather than the total space
> available for dma mappings? Not completely sure what
> dma_max_mapping_size() is returning, though?
dma_max_mapping_size is sort of both. It is is the largest contigous
size, but we really should not go above that to avoid starvation.
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