On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 06:16:07PM +0100, Dave Gordon wrote: > 'ring' is an old deprecated term for a GPU engine, so we're trying to > phase out all such terminology. eb_select_ring() not only has 'ring' > (meaning engine) in its name, but it has an ugly calling convention > whereby it returns an errno and stores a pointer-to-engine indirectly > through an output parameter. As there is only one error it ever returns > (-EINVAL), we can make it return the pointer directly, and have the > caller pass back the error code -EINVAL if the pointer result is NULL. > > Thus we can replace > - ret = eb_select_ring(dev_priv, file, args, &engine); > - if (ret) > - return ret; > with > + engine = eb_select_engine(dev_priv, file, args); > + if (!engine) > + return -EINVAL; > for increased clarity and maybe save a few cycles too. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Gordon <david.s.gor...@intel.com>
Thanks. I feel foolish for missing that easy transform before. Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk> There's a bsd_ring buried beneath here as well... -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
