Re: net2280: is use_dma_chaining obsolete?

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Hello Felipe

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 02:44:16AM +0100, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
>> > might be better if you can fix the code, instead. We have a "better"
>> > scatter-gather support in the framework itself.
>>
>> As I understand it, the code was designed to reduce the number of irqs
>> when you expect to send X consecutive packages. In that scenario you
>> only want an irq at the end. ie, u_ether supports it. It was not
>> designed for sg.
>>
>> The problem is that the driver only allocates one sg descriptor per
>> endpoint, without the possibility of chaining the request I dont see
>
> right, but what I'm is that we don't want the UDC manually allocating SG
> lists and moving req->buf to that sg, we want the gadget driver to pass
> a properly formatted sg to the UDC. Currently, only UASP implementation
> on top of target framework is doing that. Eventually, we should have
> more functions passing sgs to the UDC.

i understand. What I want to do is remove the use_dma_chaining and
then add support for sg.


>
>> how can this can work. And it does not work on my hw.
>>
>> If you could confirm what I am saying about the dma_chaining by
>> testing it on net2280 then I think we should remote the module
>> parameter, because it will only confuse the user and also ofuscates a
>> lot the code.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have net2280 and I keep forgetting if Alan has
> net2280 or net2272.

It doesnt really matter. Any will do for the test

@Alan, could you please give it a try with is use_dma_chaining obsolete=1

>
>> > UDC needs to set gadget->sg_supported and a pointer to the sg should be
>> > passed in by the gadget driver through usb_request->sg.
>>
>> I could try to implement "pure" sg on net2282.c , but I will only be
>> able to test it on usb338x hardware. If you could test it later I can
>> give it a try.
>>
>> Regards!
>>
>> --
>> Ricardo Ribalda
>
> --
> balbi



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