linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] dmaengine: Add scatter-gathered memset support

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Message-ID: <20150805053028.GP11789@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 5 Aug 2015 11:00:28 +0530
From:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...el.com>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
	dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] dmaengine: Add scatter-gathered memset support

On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 12:19:22PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi Vinod,
> 
> Here is a patch serie that adds a new dmaengine operation for
> scatter-gathered memset.
> 
> Indeed, doing a memset over a discontiguous buffer is quite
> inefficient at the moment, since you have to create and submit each
> chunk separately, which might result in a huge list of transfers,
> while some controllers can handle that just fine.

Applied, thanks

-- 
~Vinod

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