[PATCH 1/16] Spidernet DMA coalescing
Linas Vepstas
linas at austin.ibm.com
Thu Dec 14 04:27:14 EST 2006
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:11:51AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 05:27:45PM -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> >
> > The current driver code performs 512 DMA mappings of a bunch of
> > 32-byte structures. This is silly, as they are all in contiguous
> > memory. Ths patch changes the code to DMA map the entie area
> > with just one call.
>
> This is still wrong. The descriptor array must be in dma_alloc_coherent
> memory, not a streaming mapping. (I also think I pointed this out a while
> ago when I made dma_alloc_coherent node-aware)
Sorry, I missed this the first time. I'm splitting this off now; will
resubmit shortly.
--linas
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