Hi list, Will appreciate if someone can clear my doubts with "some theoretical examples". I am trying to improve XOR/GF offload for a multi-core SoC (currently it has single XOR/GF channel). 1) What is the purpose of device_prep_dma_interrupt callback ? 2) My driver currently polls for posting xor completions (dma_cookie_complete) and does'nt use device_prep_dma_interrupt callback at all. What gains/loss in terms of latency/cpu idleness/WRITE throughput I can expect by implementing this callback in my async_tx driver. 3) Purpose of DMA_ACK as I read - it is for higher layers to inform dma driver that descriptors can now be freed. Can someone explain this with an example as applicable with raid5/6 clients. 4) With example - why dma_run_dependencies(tx) needed after the hardware engine post completion for a descriptor. 5) Purpose of tx->callback(cb_arg) - again with an example from a raid5/6 offload perspective. I want to use offload engine efficiently with multithreaded raid5/6. I tried to dig through dma/drivers, crypto/async_xor.c, online archives, linux/Documentation etc but could not get satisfactory answers. Added two mail-lists as saw issues being discussed on both ones. Thanks and Best Regards Vikas Aggarwal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
