linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 16/18] dmaengine/amba-pl08x: Add support for sg len greater than one for slave transfers

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Date:	Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:11:02 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"linus.walleij@...aro.org" <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:	Pratyush ANAND <pratyush.anand@...com>,
	Rajeev KUMAR <rajeev-dlh.kumar@...com>,
	Bhupesh SHARMA <bhupesh.sharma@...com>,
	Shiraz HASHIM <shiraz.hashim@...com>,
	"vinod.koul@...el.com" <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Vipin KUMAR <vipin.kumar@...com>,
	Armando VISCONTI <armando.visconti@...com>,
	Amit VIRDI <Amit.VIRDI@...com>,
	Vipul Kumar SAMAR <vipulkumar.samar@...com>,
	"viresh.linux@...il.com" <viresh.linux@...il.com>,
	Deepak SIKRI <deepak.sikri@...com>,
	"dan.j.williams@...el.com" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/18] dmaengine/amba-pl08x: Add support for sg len greater
 than one for slave transfers

On 8/23/2011 9:52 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 8/21/2011 2:03 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>>> I am not sure if i get this completely. In memcpy, we still don't support
>>>> more than one sg. We have created a new member in txd, which keeps track of
>>>> data (addresses, len).
>> Yes, but we shouldn't need to translate it into any kind of scatterlist.
>>
> 
> Ok. I way out is keeping two separate variables in txd, list for slave transfers,
> and pointer to single element for memcpy. And that looks to be even bad to me.
> Why waste memory, for second variable. Or create union of both.
> 
> One more thing, we can actually have scatter gather in memcpy too in future. This will be
> helpful then also. But surely that's something not implemented currently.
> 

Russell/Linus,

Probably this is the only issue left in this patch. (Sorry if i missed some other points)
Please suggest what should i modify here, so that Vinod can go ahead and push pending
patches too.

-- 
viresh
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