From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: vinod.koul@intel.com (Vinod Koul) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 21:03:23 +0530 Subject: [PATCH v3 1/4] dmaengine: xilinx_vdma: Improve SG engine handling In-Reply-To: <1456495434-11722-1-git-send-email-appanad@xilinx.com> References: <1456495434-11722-1-git-send-email-appanad@xilinx.com> Message-ID: <20160303153323.GN11154@localhost> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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 -- ~Vinod