Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] DMA, CMA: support arbitrary bitmap granularity

2014-06-15 Thread Joonsoo Kim
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:19:54PM +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote: On Thu, Jun 12 2014, Joonsoo Kim iamjoonsoo@lge.com wrote: ppc kvm's cma region management requires arbitrary bitmap granularity, since they want to reserve very large memory and manage this region with bitmap that one

Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] DMA, CMA: support arbitrary bitmap granularity

2014-06-14 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Joonsoo Kim iamjoonsoo@lge.com writes: ppc kvm's cma region management requires arbitrary bitmap granularity, since they want to reserve very large memory and manage this region with bitmap that one bit for several pages to reduce management overheads. So support arbitrary bitmap

Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] DMA, CMA: support arbitrary bitmap granularity

2014-06-12 Thread Minchan Kim
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:21:42PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote: ppc kvm's cma region management requires arbitrary bitmap granularity, since they want to reserve very large memory and manage this region with bitmap that one bit for several pages to reduce management overheads. So support

Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] DMA, CMA: support arbitrary bitmap granularity

2014-06-12 Thread Joonsoo Kim
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 03:06:10PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:21:42PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote: ppc kvm's cma region management requires arbitrary bitmap granularity, since they want to reserve very large memory and manage this region with bitmap that one bit for

Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] DMA, CMA: support arbitrary bitmap granularity

2014-06-12 Thread Minchan Kim
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 03:43:55PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 03:06:10PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:21:42PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote: ppc kvm's cma region management requires arbitrary bitmap granularity, since they want to reserve very

Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] DMA, CMA: support arbitrary bitmap granularity

2014-06-12 Thread Minchan Kim
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:21:42PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote: ppc kvm's cma region management requires arbitrary bitmap granularity, since they want to reserve very large memory and manage this region with bitmap that one bit for several pages to reduce management overheads. So support

Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] DMA, CMA: support arbitrary bitmap granularity

2014-06-12 Thread Zhang Yanfei
On 06/12/2014 03:08 PM, Minchan Kim wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:21:42PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote: ppc kvm's cma region management requires arbitrary bitmap granularity, since they want to reserve very large memory and manage this region with bitmap that one bit for several pages to

Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] DMA, CMA: support arbitrary bitmap granularity

2014-06-12 Thread Joonsoo Kim
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 04:08:11PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:21:42PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote: ppc kvm's cma region management requires arbitrary bitmap granularity, since they want to reserve very large memory and manage this region with bitmap that one bit for

Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] DMA, CMA: support arbitrary bitmap granularity

2014-06-12 Thread Zhang Yanfei
On 06/12/2014 11:21 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote: ppc kvm's cma region management requires arbitrary bitmap granularity, since they want to reserve very large memory and manage this region with bitmap that one bit for several pages to reduce management overheads. So support arbitrary bitmap

Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] DMA, CMA: support arbitrary bitmap granularity

2014-06-12 Thread Michal Nazarewicz
On Thu, Jun 12 2014, Joonsoo Kim iamjoonsoo@lge.com wrote: ppc kvm's cma region management requires arbitrary bitmap granularity, since they want to reserve very large memory and manage this region with bitmap that one bit for several pages to reduce management overheads. So support

[PATCH v2 05/10] DMA, CMA: support arbitrary bitmap granularity

2014-06-11 Thread Joonsoo Kim
ppc kvm's cma region management requires arbitrary bitmap granularity, since they want to reserve very large memory and manage this region with bitmap that one bit for several pages to reduce management overheads. So support arbitrary bitmap granularity for following generalization.