On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 02:42:24PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 22:11:31 +0530, Vinod Koul wrote: > > > > This is probably the only thing that I have not changed. The mv_xor > > > driver is already using the same strategy, and enqueuing in > > > issue_pending() would force us to add the request to a temporary linked > > > list, which would be dequeued in issue_pending(). This is quite a bit > > > of additional processing, while pushing the new requests directly to > > > the engine works fine. > > > > Well that is wrong! And patch is welcome for mv_xor as well :) > > > > The DMAengine API mandates that we should submit a descriptor to a queue and > > then push them by invoking issue_pending. > > > > The users are also expected to follow this > > I have just sent a v4 that fixes this for the mv_xor_v2 driver. Now, in > ->tx_submit() we only fill in the HW descriptors, but do not tell the > engine to process them. It's only at ->issue_pending() time that we > tell the engine that there N new descriptors to process. Okay that sounds good to me, I will take a look at it.. > > I'll have a look at mv_xor a bit later. Sounds fair enough -- ~Vinod -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
