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Message-ID: <50c22529-e0f4-9124-fdc0-c8da49300b18@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 10:59:02 -0500
From: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>,
Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Gerd Bayer <gbayer@...ux.ibm.com>,
Pierre Morel <pmorel@...ux.ibm.com>, iommu@...ts.linux.dev,
linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com,
hca@...ux.ibm.com, gor@...ux.ibm.com,
gerald.schaefer@...ux.ibm.com, agordeev@...ux.ibm.com,
svens@...ux.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Julian Ruess <julianr@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/7] s390/pci: Use dma-iommu layer
On 1/19/23 6:03 AM, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> static char *pci_sw_names[] = {
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> - "Allocated pages",
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> +/* TODO "Allocated pages", */
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ? Forgot to finish this?
>
> Definitely forgot to remove the TODO. I think my latest plan was to
> just remove this counter. With the DMA API conversion the
> dma_map_ops.alloc and dma_map_ops.free move to common code and I don't
> see how we could differentiate these from map/unmap on our side. I'm
> not sure how helpful this counter really is either. If you're
> interested in how many pages are mapped long term I think it makes more
> sense to look at the difference between mapped and unmapped pages. What
> do you think?
>>>>>>>>
Sounds reasonable to me, but I also note that without this series, when viewing statistics for a device, mapped - unmapped != allocated. Maybe allocated pages was already broken, or is it taking into account something else that mapped - unmapped would not (maybe mapping the same page multiple times)?
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