On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:59:11 +0900
Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > I just have one objection to your version, and that is that it cannot
> > be used to nibble away at the sg list. The _next() call jumps an entire
> > page, whereas you sometimes need to consume that page in two different
> > sweeps. This could be handled by some external buffer that keeps the
> > remainder of the page, but the point of these functions was to keep
> > things simple for the callers.
>
> Well, I don't know how often such usages would be necessary. If it's a
> very common ops, you can add a param to the next function but frankly I
> think it's better to build a inside control structure for that. There's
> no need for external buffer, just an inner loop is sufficient.
>
I'm not sure how this can be solved by an inner loop. My primary use
case is:
1. Wait for interrupt
2. Write n bytes
3. goto 1
n has no guarantee of being aligned to any page boundaries, so state
needs to be kept between each invokation of writing a chunk of data. I
doubt I'm alone in this use pattern (in fact, most device drivers using
PIO should do something similar).
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-- Pierre Ossman
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