linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] TTM DMA pool v2.2 or [GIT PULL] (stable/ttm.dma

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Message-ID: <20111104184453.GB1616@phenom.dumpdata.com>
Date:	Fri, 4 Nov 2011 14:44:53 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Jerome Glisse <j.glisse@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, thellstrom@...are.com,
	thomas@...pmail.org, airlied@...hat.com, jglisse@...hat.com,
	bskeggs@...hat.com, xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] TTM DMA pool v2.2 or [GIT PULL]
 (stable/ttm.dma_pool.v2.3) for 3.3

> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git stable/ttm.dma_pool.v2.3
> > 
> 
> On what hw did you tested ? With and without xen ? Here radeon

On AMD and Intel. And with both Nvidia and Radeon cards.
64-bit cards (I have a patch where I forced the 64-bit card to use
the TTM DMA pool code to test) and 32-bit cards (ATI ES1000)

On baremetal and Xen. Um, Fedora Core 16 as distro.

Oh, and I also tried PPC (Power Mac 4) but could not get it to boot
the 3.1 kernel. Something with the LILO grub loader did not work.

> that doesn't need dma32 doesn't work when forcing swiotlb which
> kind of expected i guess. Should we expose if swiotlb is enabled

You did 'swiotlb=force' ?
> forced so we use dma pool in such case ?

Hm, it shoudl have enabled itself. The swiotlb_nr_tlb would return some
contents and we would.. Oh, you mean you did a 64-bit card _and_
did swiotlb=force. And since the rdev->dma32 was set to zero it
did _not_ use the TTM DMA pool.

Right. I did not do it initially just so that I could limit the scope
in case I messed up something in the code. But the code has the
'no_dma' parameter, so it can easily turn off the DMA TTM code.

So, to answer your question - sure, we can ignore the rdev_dma32 and
just use the the swiotlb_nr_tlb to check.

BTW, thank you for taking a spin with these patches and rebasing them
on top of yours. I am going to start testing them and reviewing the
latest batch you sent on Monday.
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