Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Improve DMA transfers by increasing the buffer size.

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:35:52AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Aurelien Jarno writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Improve DMA transfers by increasing the buffer size."):
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 04:35:00PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Content-Description: message body text
> > > +#define IDE_DMA_BUF_SIZE 131072
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be better to define this value in number of sectors? This
> > would avoid a few divisions in the code, and anyway the code handling
> > DMA transfers is working with a number of sectors, not a number of 
> > bytes.
> 
> I don't have much of an opinion about what units it should be in.  The
> divisions are just at compile-time of course.

I agree that the generated assembly code should not be different, but
this makes the code less readable.

> If you prefer I'll send another version with it done in sectors :-).

Please send it, I will commit it. 

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