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Re: [PATCH v4 15/16] block-dma: properly take MMIO path



On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 01:10:32PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 03:41:15PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 11:15:20AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> > > 
> > > I don't think that was ever the case. Metadata is allocated
> > > independently of the data payload, usually by the kernel in
> > > bio_integrity_prep() just before dispatching the request. The bio may
> > > have a p2p data payload, but the integrity metadata is just a kmalloc
> > > buf in that path.
> > 
> > Then you should do two dma mapping operations today, that is how the
> > API was built. You shouldn't mix P2P and non P2P within a single
> > operation right now..
> 
> Data and metadata are mapped as separate operations. They're just
> different parts of one blk-mq request.

In that case the new bit leon proposes should only be used for the
unmap of the data pages and the metadata unmap should always be
unmapped as CPU?

Jason



 


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