On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:40:50 -0400
Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> wrote:
> FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > IOMMUs merges scatter/gather segments without considering a low level
> > driver's restrictions. The problem is that IOMMUs can't access to the
> > limitations because they are in request_queue.
> >
> > This patchset introduces a new structure, device_dma_parameters,
> > including dma information. A pointer to device_dma_parameters is added
> > to struct device. The bus specific structures (like pci_dev) includes
> > device_dma_parameters. Low level drivers can use dma_set_max_seg_size
> > to tell IOMMUs about the restrictions.
> >
> > We can move more dma stuff in struct device (like dma_mask) to struct
> > device_dma_parameters later (needs some cleanups before that).
> >
> > This includes patches for all the IOMMUs that could merge sg (x86_64,
> > ppc, IA64, alpha, sparc64, and parisc) though only the ppc patch was
> > tested. The patches for other IOMMUs are only compile tested.
> >
> > Thanks to everyone for the comments on the previous submission
> > to linux-scsi.
> >
> > This is against 2.6.24-rc1. The same patchset is also available:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tomo/linux-2.6-misc.git iommu-sg-fixes
>
> Are you interested in collecting patches to libata that eliminate the
> hand-rolled S/G splitting? e.g. now ata_fill_sg() and mv_fill_sg() can
> be made much more efficient.
Yeah, but ATA has the segment boundary limit too. It's much more
tricky than the segment size limit. It makes the IOMMU free space
managemet complicated.
> Again, thanks for doing this! It's been needed for a long time.
My pleasure.
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