Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:09:26 -0700 | From | Nicolin Chen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 RFC/RFT] dma-contiguous: Get normal pages for single-page allocations |
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Hi Catalin,
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 10:57:13AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > Do you have any numbers to back this up? You don't seem to address > > > dma_direct_alloc() either but, as I said above, it's not trivial since > > > some platforms expect certain physical range for DMA allocations. > > > > What's the dma_direct_alloc() here about? Mind elaborating? > > I just did a grep for dma_alloc_from_contiguous() in the 5.1-rc1 kernel > and came up with __dma_direct_alloc_pages(). Should your patch cover > this as well?
I don't get the meaning of "cover this" here. What missing part do you refer to?
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