Re: [PATCH] dma: rcar-dmac: use list_add() on rcar_dmac_desc_put()
From: Laurent Pinchart
Date: Tue May 24 2016 - 05:50:22 EST
Hi Vinod,
On Saturday 14 May 2016 13:27:31 Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 01:50:04AM +0000, Kuninori Morimoto wrote:
> > From: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Current rcar_dmac_desc_put() is using list_add_tail() in order to
> > push used descriptor to list of free descriptors, and next DMA transfer
> > try to reuse it from this list. But because it is using *_tail(),
> > this reuse effect can't be obtained without using all of them.
> > For a longer-term solution, we should allocate hardware descriptors
> > using GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_NOWAIT, but it is difficult today.
> > This patch uses list_add() instead of list_add_tail() for short-term
> > solution.
>
> Applied, thanks
Thanks, but where did you apply it to ? I can't find it in your tree.
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Regards,
Laurent Pinchart