Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: clean up and abstract function types (was Re: [PATCH 08/19] dmaengine: enable multiple clients and operations)

Dan Williams
2006-09-18T22:56:40Z

On 9/15/06, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:38:17 -0500 Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:44:16 -0400 Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
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> > > Are we really going to add a set of hooks for each DMA engine whizbang
> > > feature?
> > >
> > > That will get ugly when DMA engines support memcpy, xor, crc32, sha1,
> > > aes, and a dozen other transforms.
> >
> >
> > Yes, it will be unmaintainable. We need some sort of multiplexing with
> > per-function registrations.
> >
> > Here's a first cut at it, just very quick. It could be improved further
> > but it shows that we could exorcise most of the hardcoded things pretty
> > easily.
>
> Ok, that was obviously a naive and not so nice first attempt, but I
> figured it was worth it to show how it can be done.
>
> This is a little more proper: Specify at client registration time what
> the function the client will use is, and make the channel use it. This
> way most of the error checking per call can be removed too.
>
> Chris/Dan: Please consider picking this up as a base for the added
> functionality and cleanups.
>
Thanks for this Olof it has sparked some ideas about how to redo
support for multiple operations.

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> Clean up dmaengine a bit. Make the client registration specify which
> channel functions ("type") the client will use. Also, make devices
> register which functions they will provide.
>
> Also exorcise most of the memcpy-specific references from the generic
> dma engine code. There's still some left in the iov stuff.
I think we should keep the operation type in the function name but
drop all the [buf|pg|dma]_to_[buf|pg|dma] permutations. The buffer
type can be handled generically across all operation types. Something
like the following for a pg_to_buf memcpy.

struct dma_async_op_memcpy *op;
struct page *pg;
void *buf;
size_t len;

dma_async_op_init_src_pg(op, pg);
dma_async_op_init_dest_buf(op, buf);
dma_async_memcpy(chan, op, len);

-Dan