Re: async_tx: get best channel

2007-10-31 Thread Yuri Tikhonov
Hi Dan, On Tuesday 23 October 2007 22:16, Dan Williams wrote: ... The problem with moving this test to async_tx_find_channel() is that it imposes extra overhead in the fast path. It would be best if we could keep all these decisions in the slow path, or at least hide it from architectures

Re: async_tx: get best channel

2007-10-23 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 05:23 -0700, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: Hello Dan, Hi Yuri, sorry it has taken me so long to get back to you... I have a suggestion regarding the async_tx_find_channel() procedure. First, a little introduction. Some processors (e.g. ppc440spe) have several DMA

async_tx: get best channel

2007-10-19 Thread Yuri Tikhonov
Hello Dan, I have a suggestion regarding the async_tx_find_channel() procedure. First, a little introduction. Some processors (e.g. ppc440spe) have several DMA engines (say DMA1 and DMA2) which are capable of performing the same type of operation, say XOR. The DMA2 engine may process the