Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:29:41 +0300 | From | Muli Ben-Yehuda <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86 DMA: Handle devices assigned to the guest by the host |
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 01:37:29PM +0300, Amit Shah wrote:
> dma_alloc_coherent() doesn't call dma_ops->alloc_coherent in case no > IOMMU translations are necessary.
I always thought this was a huge wart in the x86-64 DMA ops. Would there be strong resistance to fixing it so that alloc_coherent matches the way the other ops are used? This will eliminate the need for this patch and will make other DMA ops implementations saner.
Cheers, Muli
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