Re: [PATCH] staging: vc04_services: add vchiq_pagelist_info structure

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Nov 07 2016 - 05:03:26 EST


On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 01:10:35AM -0700, Michael Zoran wrote:
> The current dma_map_sg based implementation for bulk messages
> computes many offsets into a single allocation multiple times in
> both the create and free code paths. This is inefficient,
> error prone and in fact still has a few lingering issues
> with arm64.
>
> This change replaces a small portion of that inplementation with
> new code that uses a new struct vchiq_pagelist_info to store the
> needed information rather then complex offset calculations.
>
> This improved implementation should be more efficient and easier
> to understand and maintain.
>
> Tests Run(Both Pass):
> vchiq_test -p 1
> vchiq_test -f 10
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Zoran <mzoran@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_2835_arm.c | 223 +++++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 113 insertions(+), 110 deletions(-)

This doesn't apply to the tree anymore because of your previous patch :(

Can you refresh it and resend?

thanks,

greg k-h