Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] dmaengine: xilinx_vdma: Improve SG engine handling

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Thu Mar 03 2016 - 10:29:34 EST


On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 07:33:51PM +0530, Kedareswara rao Appana wrote:
> The current driver allows user to queue up multiple segments
> on to a single transaction descriptor. User will submit this single desc
> and in the issue_pending() we decode multiple segments and submit to SG HW engine.
> We free up the allocated_desc when it is submitted to the HW.
>
> Existing code prevents the user to prepare multiple trasactions at same time as
> we are overwrite with the allocated_desc.
>
> The best utilization of HW SG engine would happen if we collate the pending
> list when we start dma this patch updates the same.

Applied all. It is usually advisable to do cover letter using --cover-letter
for multi patch series

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~Vinod