linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] remove fullflush and nofullflush in IOMMU generic option

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Message-Id: <20080920050229Z.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Date:	Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:02:16 +0900
From:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	joerg.roedel@....com
Cc:	fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove fullflush and nofullflush in IOMMU generic
 option

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:52:16 +0200
Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 03:48:11AM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:01:18 +0200
> > Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 02:40:35AM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:30:04 +0200
> > > > Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 02:09:21AM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Please keep it for AMD option for now. Please send a patch to make it
> > > > > > generic to other IOMMU people and give them a chance to discuss on
> > > > > > it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > 
> > > > > Btw, you already agreed with a generic iommu= parameter for lazy IO/TLB
> > > > > flushing"
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > >  > True. We should merge common parameters across IOMMUs into the
> > > > >  > iommu= parameter some time in the future, I think. It would also be the
> > > > >  > place for the IOMMU size parameter.
> > > > > 
> > > > >  Hmm, now is better than the future? I think that now you can add
> > > > >  something like 'disable_batching_flush' as a common parameter and
> > > > >  change AMD IOMMU to use it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/17/376
> > > > > 
> > > > > And since we already have a iommu=fullflush parameter it makes sense of
> > > > > make it generic.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not against fullflush but we need to discuss it with other people
> > > > before making the change.
> > > 
> > > Weird. Just 2 hours ago you wrote:
> > > 
> > > |http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/19/106
> > > |
> > > |For me, adding these boot parameters doesn't make sense.
> > 
> > See:
> > 
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/19/221
> 
> Removing nofullflush and moving fullflush to the generic code are two
> different questions. You talk about the first and I talk about the
> second here. We should make sure we talk about the same things
> when we flame each other ;)

And the root cause is that your patch does the two different things.

So please revert the changes. I've already send a patch to do
that. Please do these things in the proper way. If you think that you
are free to remove nofullflush from GART, send a patch to do that. If
you think that fullflush should be generic, send a patch to do it with
CC'ed to IOMMU people.
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