This patch adds a helper function whether a queue can merge the segments by the DMA MAP layer (e.g. via IOMMU).
Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda...@renesas.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de> --- block/blk-settings.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+) diff --git a/block/blk-settings.c b/block/blk-settings.c index 45f2c52..6a78ea0 100644 --- a/block/blk-settings.c +++ b/block/blk-settings.c @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ */ #include <linux/bio.h> #include <linux/blkdev.h> +#include <linux/dma-mapping.h> #include <linux/gcd.h> #include <linux/gfp.h> #include <linux/init.h> @@ -831,6 +832,27 @@ void blk_queue_write_cache(struct request_queue *q, bool wc, bool fua) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_queue_write_cache); +/** + * blk_queue_can_use_dma_map_merging - configure queue for merging segments. + * @q: the request queue for the device + * @dev: the device pointer for dma + * + * Tell the block layer about merging the segments by dma map of @q. + */ +bool blk_queue_can_use_dma_map_merging(struct request_queue *q, + struct device *dev) +{ + unsigned long boundary = dma_get_merge_boundary(dev); + + if (!boundary) + return false; + + /* No need to update max_segment_size. see blk_queue_virt_boundary() */ + blk_queue_virt_boundary(q, boundary); + + return true; +} + static int __init blk_settings_init(void) { blk_max_low_pfn = max_low_pfn - 1; diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 1ef375d..f6d55e2 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -1085,6 +1085,8 @@ extern void blk_queue_dma_alignment(struct request_queue *, int); extern void blk_queue_update_dma_alignment(struct request_queue *, int); extern void blk_queue_rq_timeout(struct request_queue *, unsigned int); extern void blk_queue_write_cache(struct request_queue *q, bool enabled, bool fua); +extern bool blk_queue_can_use_dma_map_merging(struct request_queue *q, + struct device *dev); /* * Number of physical segments as sent to the device. -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ iommu mailing list iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/iommu