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Message-Id: <1195502116.6970.5.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:55:16 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: SCSI breakage on non-cache coherent architectures


> I'd like to be rid of it inside the command for various reasons:  every
> command has one of these, and they're expensive in the allocation (at 96
> bytes).  There's no reason we have to allocate and free that amount of
> space with every command.  In theory, the number of these is bounded at
> the queue depth, in practice, there's usually only one, and this DMA
> alignment issue does requires most drivers to double copy.

Do you have a plan for short term here ? I'd like something fixed
for .25, so I may have to introduce a __dma_aligned macro of some sort
to deal with that in the meantime...

Ben.


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