[PATCH RFC]: Bus_dma eats all available memory

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Tue Jun 30 20:36:09 UTC 2009


Piotr Zięcik wrote:
> Friday 26 June 2009 16:01:17 Scott Long napisał(a):
>> Tags and maps should be allocated at driver initialization time, not
>> every time a request comes in.  The problem here isn't the MAX() test,
>> it's that the MIN_ALLOC_COMP test is getting fooled because the tag
>> keeps on getting recycled.  The correct fix is likely to move the flag
>> into the bounce zone object.  But in general, you should not be
>> allocating and freeing tags and maps so often, they are meant to have a
>> long lifespan.
>>
> 
> I have fixed my driver and updated patch for bus_dma. Could I ask you for 
> review ? Patch was successfully tested on ARM.
> 

This looks reasonable.  I'll give it a closer review and commit it to 
the FreeBSD repo.  Thanks a lot for working on it.

Scott


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