On Tue, Oct 30 2007, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29 2007 at 22:16 +0200, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 26 2007, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >> [CRYPTO] tcrypt: Move sg_init_table out of timing loops
> >>
> >> This patch moves the sg_init_table out of the timing loops for hash
> >> algorithms so that it doesn't impact on the speed test results.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be better to just make sg_init_one() call sg_init_table?
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/scatterlist.h b/include/linux/scatterlist.h
> > index 4571231..ccc55a6 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/scatterlist.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/scatterlist.h
> > @@ -202,28 +202,6 @@ static inline void __sg_mark_end(struct scatterlist *sg)
> > }
> >
> > /**
> > - * sg_init_one - Initialize a single entry sg list
> > - * @sg: SG entry
> > - * @buf: Virtual address for IO
> > - * @buflen: IO length
> > - *
> > - * Notes:
> > - * This should not be used on a single entry that is part of a larger
> > - * table. Use sg_init_table() for that.
> > - *
> > - **/
> > -static inline void sg_init_one(struct scatterlist *sg, const void *buf,
> > - unsigned int buflen)
> > -{
> > - memset(sg, 0, sizeof(*sg));
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SG
> > - sg->sg_magic = SG_MAGIC;
> > -#endif
> > - sg_mark_end(sg, 1);
> > - sg_set_buf(sg, buf, buflen);
> > -}
> > -
> > -/**
> > * sg_init_table - Initialize SG table
> > * @sgl: The SG table
> > * @nents: Number of entries in table
> > @@ -247,6 +225,24 @@ static inline void sg_init_table(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents)
> > }
> >
> > /**
> > + * sg_init_one - Initialize a single entry sg list
> > + * @sg: SG entry
> > + * @buf: Virtual address for IO
> > + * @buflen: IO length
> > + *
> > + * Notes:
> > + * This should not be used on a single entry that is part of a larger
> > + * table. Use sg_init_table() for that.
> > + *
> > + **/
> > +static inline void sg_init_one(struct scatterlist *sg, const void *buf,
> > + unsigned int buflen)
> > +{
> > + sg_init_table(sg, 1);
> > + sg_set_buf(sg, buf, buflen);
> > +}
> > +
> > +/**
> > * sg_phys - Return physical address of an sg entry
> > * @sg: SG entry
> > *
> >
> Yes please submit this patch. scsi-ml is full of sg_init_one, specially
> on the error recovery path.
Will do.
--
Jens Axboe
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