On 23 January 2013 14:42, Andy Shevchenko
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Ah, you mean the dma_cookie_status returns DMA_SUCCESS in case
> active_list is empty, don't you?

Bingo!!

> Yesterday I spent in testing of different approaches. First of all, the
> calculation of the sent amount is nicer when ctlhi/ctllo is used and it
> works fine. But the approach, when we substract length of sent
> descriptors, is losing data. Namely, we have no information how big is
> the master descriptor (it has total length of the entire chain). So, I'm
> thinking how to solve this one. Otherwise it seems simpler than mine
> first idea.

I was planning to give you another review comment which i thought i will
give later :)

It looks to be a bit wrong to have individual lengths in all descriptors leaving
the first one :)

This is the descriptor struct:

struct dw_desc {
        /* FIRST values the hardware uses */
        struct dw_lli                   lli;

        /* THEN values for driver housekeeping */
        struct list_head                desc_node;
        struct list_head                tx_list;
        struct dma_async_tx_descriptor  txd;
        size_t                          len;
};

Firstly i believe we can have a union of both list_heads as only one is used
at any time. Can you patch it down?

Second to solve your problem, you can add another field here: total_len.
I know it will consume 4 bytes per desc but i think that's the drawback we need
to accept.
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