Re: [PATCH] dma: rcar-dmac: use list_add() on rcar_dmac_desc_put()

[Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>]

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:50:28PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

Hey Laurent,

> 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@renesas.com>
> > > 
> > > 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.

I changed my mind after this and felt that we should document above
in the changelog as well and replied to Kuninori few moments after this [1]

Sorry if that wasn't clear that am not applying this.

Please resend it with update changelog

[1]: http://www.spinics.net/lists/dmaengine/msg09585.html

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~Vinod