Re: [PATCH 21/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet DMA coalescing

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Wed Oct 11 2006 - 03:16:29 EST


On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 18:20 -0500, jschopp wrote:
> Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > The current driver code performs 512 DMA mappns of a bunch of
> > 32-byte structures. This is silly, as they are all in contiguous
> > memory. Ths patch changes the code to DMA map the entie area
> > with just one call.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> The others look good, but this one complicates the code and doesn't have any benefit. 20
> for 21 isn't bad.

Hi Joel !

I'm not sure what you mean here.... (especially your 20 to 21 comment).

The patch looks perfectly fine to me, and in fact removes more lines of
code than it adds :)

Cheers,
Ben.


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