Re: [PATCHv4 6/8] videobuf2: add queue memory coherency parameter

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Tue Aug 17 2021 - 06:43:37 EST


On (21/08/03 10:29), Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >
> > +static void set_queue_coherency(struct vb2_queue *q, bool coherent_mem)
> > +{
> > + q->coherent_mem = 1;
>
> This I do not like: coherent memory is the default, and so I think it will
> be more robust if this field is renamed to non_coherent_mem and so coherent
> memory will be the default since this field will be cleared initially with
> kzalloc.
>
> Basically a similar argument that you used in patch 2/8.
>
> I also think that it improves readability, since non-coherent is the
> exceptional case, not the rule, and the field name corresponds with the
> V4L2 memory flag name.
>
> I noticed that in v1 of this series it was actually called non_coherent_mem,
> and it was changed in v2, actually after some comments from me.
>
> But I changed my mind on that, and I think it makes more sense to go back to
> calling this non_coherent_mem.

Ok, done. Hans, is this your final decision? :)