linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] nova-core: Solve mentions of `CoherentAllocation` improvements [COHA]

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Message-ID: <21944b18-ac36-4acd-9d36-cc05579acc0d@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:13:11 +0200
From: Daniel del Castillo <delcastillodelarosadaniel@...il.com>
To: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
Cc: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>, David Airlie
 <airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>,
 Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
 nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
 Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>, Björn Roy Baron
 <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, Benno Lossin <lossin@...nel.org>,
 Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>, Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>,
 Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] nova-core: Solve mentions of `CoherentAllocation`
 improvements [COHA]

Hi Danilo,

On 10/15/25 22:04, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> On 10/15/25 9:49 PM, Daniel del Castillo wrote:
>> This patch solves the existing mentions of COHA, a task
>> in the Nova task list about improving the `CoherentAllocation` API.
>> I confirmed by talking to Alexandre Courbot, that the reading/writing
>> methods in `CoherentAllocation` can never be safe, so
>> this patch doesn't actually change `CoherentAllocation`, but rather
>> tries to solve the existing references to [COHA].
> 
> This patch seems to address two different TODOs. Please split up the patch
> accordingly.

Sorry, I thought it was okay as they were part of the same task. Will do.

Thanks for the other comments as well, I'll apply them and send a new
version soon.

Cheers,
Daniel