Re: [patch] zero-bounce highmem I/O

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:07:40 +0200


On Wed, Aug 15 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:13:35 +0200
>
> Looks fine to me, exactly the interface I've used/wanted. But you want
> to add the extra page/offset to the existing scatterlist, and not scrap
> that one completely?
>
> The idea is that address/alt_address disappear sometime in 2.5.
> Something like this right?

Ok so you just want to turn scatterlist into what I call sg_list in 2.5
time, fine with me too. Depends on whether we want to keep the
pci_map_sg and struct scatterlist interface intact, or just break it and
tell driver authors they must fix their stuff regardless of whether they
want to support highmem. As I write this sentence, it's clear to me
which way is the superior :-)

> BTW, on x86 we can ifdef the dma64_address to u32 or u64 based
> upon CONFIG_HIGHMEM if we wish.

Yep. Want me to add in the x86 parts of your patch?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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