From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:37:03 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] mmc:dcache: Cache line size aligned internal MMC buffers In-Reply-To: References: <1313745913-28672-1-git-send-email-l.majewski@samsung.com> <20110823201203.B6DCD201520@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <201108231637.05845.vapier@gentoo.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 16:27:26 Anton Staaf wrote: > So then, to guide our efforts, what is a more suitable solution? > Would you prefer we stick with the existing path of calling memalign > and passing it the cache size by directly calling > get_dcache_line_size? Or would you prefer something more like a > dma_buffer_malloc function that allocates on the heap a cache line > size aligned buffer and returns it? memalign() is simply a malloc() with offset fudging, so dma_buffer_malloc() is the way to go imo. anything that involves end code having to figure out how to align things itself is asking for pain. -mike -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20110823/30650cd0/attachment.pgp