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Date:	Sat, 14 May 2016 13:34:59 +0530
From:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:	Niklas Söderlund 
	<niklas.soderlund+renesas@...natech.se>
Cc:	dan.j.williams@...el.com, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arnd@...db.de,
	linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: of_dma: approximate an average distribution

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 03:15:11PM +0200, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> Currently the following DT description would result in dmac0 always
> being tried first and dmac1 second if dmac0 was unavailable. This
> results in heavier use of dmac0 then of dmac1. This patch adds an
> approximate average distribution over the two nodes lessening the load
> of anyone of them.
> 
>    i2c6: i2c@...b0000 {
>            ...
>            dmas = <&dmac0 0x77>, <&dmac0 0x78>,
>                   <&dmac1 0x77>, <&dmac1 0x78>;
>            dma-names = "tx", "rx", "tx", "rx";
>            ...
>    };

Applied, thanks

-- 
~Vinod

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