From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludovic.desroches@atmel.com (Ludovic Desroches) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 08:22:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 0/2] dmaengine: Add scatter-gathered memset support In-Reply-To: <1436177964-19380-1-git-send-email-maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> References: <1436177964-19380-1-git-send-email-maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20150717062220.GH14886@odux.rfo.atmel.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 12:19:22PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote: > Hi Vinod, > > Here is a patch serie that adds a new dmaengine operation for > scatter-gathered memset. > > Indeed, doing a memset over a discontiguous buffer is quite > inefficient at the moment, since you have to create and submit each > chunk separately, which might result in a huge list of transfers, > while some controllers can handle that just fine. > > Let me know what you think, > Maxime > > Maxime Ripard (2): > dmaengine: Add scatter-gathered memset > dmaengine: xdmac: Add scatter gathered memset support > I have forgotten to add it but of course: Acked-by: Ludovic Desroches Thanks > drivers/dma/at_xdmac.c | 166 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > include/linux/dmaengine.h | 5 ++ > 2 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > -- > 2.4.5 >