linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] net: ethernet: mellanox: correct page conversion

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Message-ID: <5714E6DA.4080008@codeaurora.org>
Date:	Mon, 18 Apr 2016 09:53:30 -0400
From:	Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>
To:	Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.com>
Cc:	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, timur@...eaurora.org,
	cov@...eaurora.org, Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...lanox.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] net: ethernet: mellanox: correct page conversion

On 4/18/2016 2:54 AM, Eli Cohen wrote:
> Sinan,
> 
> if we get rid of the part this code:
> 
>                 if (BITS_PER_LONG == 64) {
>                         struct page **pages;
>                         pages = kmalloc(sizeof *pages * buf->nbufs, gfp);
>                         if (!pages)
>                                 goto err_free;
>                         ...
>                         ...
>                         if (!buf->direct.buf)
>                                 goto err_free;
>                 }
> 
> Does that solve the arm issue?

I will test. As far as I know, there is one more place these DMA addresses
are called with vmap. This is in mlx4_en_map_buffer.

I was trying to rearrange the allocation so that vmap actually works.

What do you think about mlx4_en_map_buffer?


-- 
Sinan Kaya
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project