[PATCH 2/2] drivers/nvme: default to the IOMMU page size on Power

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Fri Oct 2 10:41:46 PDT 2015


On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 10:39:47AM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> Ok, I'm happy to do that instead -- what I struggled with is that I
> don't have enough knowledge of the various architectures to provide the
> right default implementation. It should be sufficient for the default to
> return PAGE_SHIFT, and on Power just override that to return the IOMMU
> table's page size? Since the only user will be the NVMe driver
> currently, that should be fine?

I think that's fine.

> Sorry for the less-than-ideal patch!

Np, it's a reasonable first attempt that we just need to refine.



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