linux-kernel - Re: [Patch Part3 V1 19/22] iommu/vt-d: simplify intel_unmap

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Message-ID: <53561D61.7030706@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:42:25 +0800
From:	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
CC:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
	Yijing Wang <wangyijing@...wei.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch Part3 V1 19/22] iommu/vt-d: simplify intel_unmap_sg()
 and kill duplicated code

On 2014/4/22 15:38, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 15:07 +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
>> +       size_t size = 0;
>> +#if 0
>> +       /* current the third argument of intel_unmap_page is unsued */
>> +       int i;
>> +       struct scatterlist *sg;
>>  
>> -       freelist = domain_unmap(domain, start_pfn, last_pfn);
>> +       for_each_sg(sglist, sg, nelems, i)
>> +               size += sg->length;
>> +#endif
> 
> Please don't do that. If you want to rely on the fact that
> intel_unmap_page() currently just uses the size from the IOVA it finds,
> then split it out into a separate function which explicitly does
> precisely that. And call that new function from both intel_unmap_sg()
> and intel_unmap_page().

Good suggestion, will change to follow that way in next version.
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