linux-kernel - Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm: fix cacheline alignment for DMA-able buffers

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Date:	Tue, 9 Aug 2016 16:08:38 -0600
From:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...omium.org>
Cc:	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Christophe Ricard <christophe.ricard@...il.com>,
	tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm: fix cacheline alignment for DMA-able
 buffers

On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 08:18:00AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

>    Well, the main reason was simplicity and invasiveness of the
>    change.

Well, it isn't simple, because the proposed patches have had subtle
problems with DMA. Simple is to use a guaranteed dma-able allocation
for DMA memory and stop trying to over optimize.

Jason