[RFC 3/3] mm: iommu: The Virtual Contiguous Memory Manager

[Joerg Roedel]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 12:33:51AM -0700, Zach Pfeffer wrote:
> Daniel Walker wrote:

> > So if we include this code which "map implementations" could you
> > collapse into this implementations ? Generally , what currently existing
> > code can VCMM help to eliminate?
> 
> In theory, it can eliminate all code the interoperates between IOMMU,
> CPU and non-IOMMU based devices and all the mapping code, alignment,
> mapping attribute and special block size support that's been
> implemented.

Thats a very abstract statement. Can you point to particular code files
and give a rough sketch how it could be improved using VCMM?

	Joerg