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Re: [Xen-devel] x86 swiotlb questions

To: "Keir Fraser" <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] x86 swiotlb questions
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:49:53 +0000
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Patch update, fixing a bug on x86/PAE, and making include/xen/swiotlb.h look
a lot nicer (but still not really nice). My plan is to submit the non-Xen ones 
to
lkml right after New Year, unless I hear negative feedback.

What are the plans on the Xen side - pull the non-Xen patches into patches/,
or ignore everything until (hopefully) mainline has picked up some or all of
the native ones?

Jan

>>Do we merge okay with lib/swiotlb.c then? One concern I had was with our
>>preferred setup semantics -- we really want the user to be able to forcibly
>>enable the swiotlb via a boot parameter *but* not have to suffer using it
>>for every DMA operation. Last I looked the generic swiotlb didn't have that
>>option. That and our very Xen-specific checks for whether to auto-enable the
>>swiotlb led me to think that the very start-of-day setup of swiotlb would
>>need to be overridable by architecture.
>
>I think I retained all of the semantics, attached the patches as I have them
>by now. This is a submission for review only, as the first four patches will
>need to go to kernel.org (and hopefully will get accepted). The Xen
>customization is fairly ugly, but I didn't see anything nicer than that while
>also keeping the amount of changes to lib/swiotlb.c reasonable.
>
>Patch order is
>swiotlb-bugs.patch
>swiotlb-bus.patch
>swiotlb-cleanup.patch
>swiotlb-split.patch
>xen-swiotlb.patch

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