pxa_dma_update_sg_tail() is called only once, runs exactly the same loop as the caller and has to recalculate the last element in an sg-list, that the caller has already calculated. Eliminate redundancy by merging the two loops and re-using the calculated pointer. This also saves a bit of performance which is always good during video-capture. Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx> --- On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Robert Jarzmik wrote: > Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx> writes: > > > pxa_dma_update_sg_tail is called only here, why not inline it and also put > > inside one loop? > As for the inline, I'm pretty sure you know it is automatically done by gcc. > > As for moving it inside the loop, that would certainly improve performance. Yet > I find it more readable/maintainable that way, and will leave it. But I won't be > bothered at all if you retransform it back to your view, that's up to you. Robert, this is what I'm going to apply on top of your patch-series. Please, object:-) drivers/media/video/pxa_camera.c | 20 ++++++-------------- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/video/pxa_camera.c b/drivers/media/video/pxa_camera.c index cfa113c..c639845 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/pxa_camera.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/pxa_camera.c @@ -566,15 +566,6 @@ static void pxa_dma_stop_channels(struct pxa_camera_dev *pcdev) } } -static void pxa_dma_update_sg_tail(struct pxa_camera_dev *pcdev, - struct pxa_buffer *buf) -{ - int i; - - for (i = 0; i < pcdev->channels; i++) - pcdev->sg_tail[i] = buf->dmas[i].sg_cpu + buf->dmas[i].sglen; -} - static void pxa_dma_add_tail_buf(struct pxa_camera_dev *pcdev, struct pxa_buffer *buf) { @@ -585,12 +576,13 @@ static void pxa_dma_add_tail_buf(struct pxa_camera_dev *pcdev, buf_last_desc = buf->dmas[i].sg_cpu + buf->dmas[i].sglen; buf_last_desc->ddadr = DDADR_STOP; - if (!pcdev->sg_tail[i]) - continue; - pcdev->sg_tail[i]->ddadr = buf->dmas[i].sg_dma; - } + if (pcdev->sg_tail[i]) + /* Link the new buffer to the old tail */ + pcdev->sg_tail[i]->ddadr = buf->dmas[i].sg_dma; - pxa_dma_update_sg_tail(pcdev, buf); + /* Update the channel tail */ + pcdev->sg_tail[i] = buf_last_desc; + } } /** -- 1.5.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html