On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 04:56:41PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Several RDMA drivers, e.g. drivers/infiniband/hw/qib, use the CPU to
> transfer data between memory and PCIe adapter. Because of performance
> reasons it is important that the CPU cache is not flushed when such
> drivers transfer data. Make this possible by allowing these drivers to
> override the dma_map_ops pointer. Additionally, introduce the function
> set_dma_ops() that will be used by a later patch in this series.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <[email protected]>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
> Cc: Chris Zankel <[email protected]>
> Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
> Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
> Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
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> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
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> Cc: Mark Salter <[email protected]>
> Cc: Max Filippov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Mikael Starvik <[email protected]>
> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <[email protected]>
> Cc: Rich Felker <[email protected]>
> Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
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That's a crazy cc: list, you should break this up into smaller pieces,
otherwise it's going to bounce...
> diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
> index 491b4c0ca633..c7cb225d36b0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/device.h
> +++ b/include/linux/device.h
> @@ -885,6 +885,8 @@ struct dev_links_info {
> * a higher-level representation of the device.
> */
> struct device {
> + const struct dma_map_ops *dma_ops; /* See also get_dma_ops() */
> +
> struct device *parent;
>
> struct device_private *p;
Why not put this new pointer down with the other dma fields in this
structure? Any specific reason it needs to be first?
thanks,
greg k-h
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