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From:   Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org>
Date:   Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:23:46 +0900
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] media: usb: pwc: Don't use coherent DMA buffers
 for ISO transfer
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 11:51 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 05:18:35PM +0900, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > The existing code that deals with dma_alloc_attrs() without
> > DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT would just call dma_get_sgtable_attrs() like
> > here:
>
> I know.  And dma_get_sgtable_attrs is fundamentally flawed and we
> need to kill this interface as it just can't worked with virtually
> tagged cases.  It is a prime example for an interface that looks
> nice and simple but is plain wrong.

Got it, thanks.

I haven't been following the problems with virtually tagged cases,
would you mind sharing some background, so that we can consider it
when adding non-consistent allocations to VB2?

Best regards,
Tomasz