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Message-ID: <20151002174146.GA21503@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 2 Oct 2015 10:41:46 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
	Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] drivers/nvme: default to the IOMMU page size on Power

On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 10:39:47AM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> Ok, I'm happy to do that instead -- what I struggled with is that I
> don't have enough knowledge of the various architectures to provide the
> right default implementation. It should be sufficient for the default to
> return PAGE_SHIFT, and on Power just override that to return the IOMMU
> table's page size? Since the only user will be the NVMe driver
> currently, that should be fine?

I think that's fine.

> Sorry for the less-than-ideal patch!

Np, it's a reasonable first attempt that we just need to refine.
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