On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 01:57:52PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> >Actually I think it doesn't since it is only relevant for the else
> >statement where we are passing the page_size boundary.
>
> Hello Sagi,
>
> Suppose that the following sg-list is passed to this function as { offset,
> length } pairs and that this list has not been coalesced by the DMA mapping
> code: [ { 0, page_size / 4 }, { page_size / 4, page_size / 4 }, { 2 *
> page_size / 4, page_size / 2 } ]. I think the algorithm in patch 01/24 will
> map the above sample sg-list onto two pages. Shouldn't that sg-list be
> mapped onto one page instead ?
Shouldn't higher layers take care of this? Trying to implement the same
coalescing algorithm at various layers isn't very optimal, although we
need to decide and document which one is responsible.
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