[PATCH v4 04/11] swiotlb: support NOT_COHERENT_CACHE PowerPC platforms

Albert Herranz albert_herranz at yahoo.es
Tue Mar 16 17:17:46 EST 2010


FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> If we want to make swiotlb generic (make on any architectures), we
> need to handle more cache issues here, I think. So it's better to have
> more generic ways instead of adding hooks to some archs.
> 

Ok. So what would be an acceptable way of handling this in a generic way?
Should we for example have 2 levels of DMA ops in the swiotlb case (swiotlb and "actual") and call the 2nd level ("actual") from the swiotlb code whenever we need to act on non-bounced buffers?
Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Albert



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