Hi,
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Yong Wu <yong...@mediatek.com> wrote:
> Sometimes it is not worth for the iommu allocating big chunks.
> Here we enable DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_SINGLE_PAGES which could help avoid to
> allocate big chunks while iommu allocating buffer.
>
> More information about this attribute, please check Doug's commit[1].
>
> [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/11/720
>
> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.mur...@arm.com>
> Suggested-by: Douglas Anderson <diand...@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Yong Wu <yong...@mediatek.com>
> ---
>
> Our video drivers may soon use this.
>
> arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c | 14 ++++++++++----
> include/linux/dma-iommu.h | 4 ++--
> 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
It should also be mentioned that this depends on commit df05c6f6e0bb
("ARM: 8506/1: common: DMA-mapping: add DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_SINGLE_PAGES
attribute") which is not in mainline quite yet.
Also please CC Marek Szyprowski on any future patches in this area
since I saw a patch series from him that was touching this same area.
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <diand...@chromium.org>
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