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The existing .map_pages() callback provides both allocating of IOVA and linking DMA pages. That combination works great for most of the callers who use it in control paths, but is less effective in fast paths where there may be multiple calls to map_page(). These advanced callers already manage their data in some sort of database and can perform IOVA allocation in advance, leaving range linkage operation to be in fast path. Provide an interface to allocate/deallocate IOVA and next patch link/unlink DMA ranges to that specific IOVA. In the new API a DMA mapping transaction is identified by a struct dma_iova_state, which holds some recomputed information for the transaction which does not change for each page being mapped, so add a check if IOVA can be used for the specific transaction. The API is exported from dma-iommu as it is the only implementation supported, the namespace is clearly different from iommu_* functions which are not allowed to be used. This code layout allows us to save function call per API call used in datapath as well as a lot of boilerplate code. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.