Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] net/macb: add TX multiqueue support for gem

[Cyrille Pitchen]

Le 12/12/2014 10:59, David Laight a écrit :
> From: Cyrille Pitchen [...
>>> It will probably add a lot of object code and, depending on how often
>>> the registers are accesses, might have performance impact.
>>>
>>> Having:
>>> #define GEM_ISR(n) (0x400 + (n) << 4)
>>> will save source code.
>>>
>>> 	David
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> So you suggest that we keep the unsigned int fields ISR, IMR, IER, IDR, TBQP in
>> the struct macb_queue and initialize them once for all in macb_probe() like
>> patch v2 does but only replace the GEM_ISR1 .. GEM_ISR7 defines by GEM_ISR(n)
>> in macb.h?
>>
>> This way there would be to test at run time and we can handle the special
>> register mapping of queue0.
>>
>> Is it what you meant?
> 
> In one word, yes.
> 
> 	David
> 
> 
> 
OK, so I'm working on v3

Thanks

Cyrille
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