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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] usbip: Skip DMA mapping and unmapping for urb at
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To:     Suwan Kim <suwan.kim027@gmail.com>, valentina.manea.m@gmail.com,
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On 8/2/19 11:36 AM, Suwan Kim wrote:
> vhci doesn’t do DMA for remote device. Actually, the real DMA
> operation is done by network card driver. vhci just passes virtual
> address of the buffer to the network stack, so vhci doesn’t use and
> need dma address of the buffer of the URB.
> 
> But HCD provides DMA mapping and unmapping function by default.
> Moreover, it causes unnecessary DMA mapping and unmapping which
> will be done again at the NIC driver and it wastes CPU cycles.
> So, implement map_urb_for_dma and unmap_urb_for_dma function for
> vhci in order to skip the DMA mapping and unmapping procedure.
> 
> When it comes to supporting SG for vhci, it is useful to use native
> SG list (urb->num_sgs) instead of mapped SG list because DMA mapping
> fnuction can adjust the number of SG list (urb->num_mapped_sgs).
> And vhci_map_urb_for_dma() prevents isoc pipe from using SG as
> hcd_map_urb_for_dma() does.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suwan Kim <suwan.kim027@gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c b/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c
> index 000ab7225717..c62f7fa8118c 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c
> @@ -1288,6 +1288,22 @@ static int vhci_free_streams(struct usb_hcd *hcd, struct usb_device *udev,
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   
> +static int vhci_map_urb_for_dma(struct usb_hcd *hcd, struct urb *urb,
> +		gfp_t mem_flags)
> +{
> +	if (usb_endpoint_xfer_isoc(&urb->ep->desc) && urb->num_sgs) {
> +		WARN_ON(1);

Don't add WARN_ON. I cleaned them all up recently and don't want new
ones added.

thanks,
-- Shuah