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Re: [PATCH] staging: vc04_services: add vchiq_pagelist_info structure

From Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] staging: vc04_services: add vchiq_pagelist_info structure
Date 2016-11-07 11:10 +0100
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 01:10:35AM -0700, Michael Zoran wrote:
> The current dma_map_sg based implementation for bulk messages
> computes many offsets into a single allocation multiple times in
> both the create and free code paths.  This is inefficient,
> error prone and in fact still has a few lingering issues
> with arm64.
> 
> This change replaces a small portion of that inplementation with
> new code that uses a new struct vchiq_pagelist_info to store the
> needed information rather then complex offset calculations.
> 
> This improved implementation should be more efficient and easier
> to understand and maintain.
> 
> Tests Run(Both Pass):
> vchiq_test -p 1
> vchiq_test -f 10
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Zoran <mzoran@crowfest.net>
> ---
>  .../interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_2835_arm.c           | 223 +++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 113 insertions(+), 110 deletions(-)

This doesn't apply to the tree anymore because of your previous patch :(

Can you refresh it and resend?

thanks,

greg k-h

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[PATCH] staging: vc04_services: add vchiq_pagelist_info structure Michael Zoran <mzoran@crowfest.net> - 2016-10-31 09:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] staging: vc04_services: add vchiq_pagelist_info structure Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-11-07 11:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] staging: vc04_services: add vchiq_pagelist_info  structure Michael Zoran <mzoran@crowfest.net> - 2016-11-07 16:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] staging: vc04_services: add vchiq_pagelist_info structure Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-11-11 00:00 +0100

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