linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 01/10] ARM: davinci: move private EDMA API to arm/common

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Date:	Tue, 5 Feb 2013 16:30:45 +0100
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Cyril Chemparathy <cyril@...com>
Cc:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>, balbi@...com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 01/10] ARM: davinci: move private EDMA API to arm/common

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Cyril Chemparathy <cyril@...com> wrote:
> On 02/04/2013 04:11 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:

>> Cyril, just stack up the cookies and take a sweep over them to see
>> which ones are baked when the NAPI poll comes in -> problem
>> solved.
>
> You're assuming that cookies complete in order.  That is not necessarily
> true.

So put them on a wait list? Surely you will have a list of pending
cookies and pick from the front of the queue if there isn't a hole on
queue position 0.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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