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

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Message-ID: <20160418143255.GA15203@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 18 Apr 2016 07:32:55 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.com>
Cc:	Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>, 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 Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 09:54:47AM +0300, 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?

Not quite.  You still have code in mlx4_en_map_buffer that performs
this mapping later if it it wasn't mapped in mlx4_buf_alloc.

You'll need to get rid of that by ensuring max_direct for all the cases
currently using mlx4_en_map_buffer as well.