On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:15:08 -0600 Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk> wrote:
> On 08/08/2015 02:44 AM, Robert Jarzmik wrote: > > Sometimes a scatter-gather has to be split into several chunks, or sub > > scatter lists. This happens for example if a scatter list will be > > handled by multiple DMA channels, each one filling a part of it. > > > > A concrete example comes with the media V4L2 API, where the scatter list > > is allocated from userspace to hold an image, regardless of the > > knowledge of how many DMAs will fill it : > > - in a simple RGB565 case, one DMA will pump data from the camera ISP > > to memory > > - in the trickier YUV422 case, 3 DMAs will pump data from the camera > > ISP pipes, one for pipe Y, one for pipe U and one for pipe V > > > > For these cases, it is necessary to split the original scatter list into > > multiple scatter lists, which is the purpose of this patch. > > > > The guarantees that are required for this patch are : > > - the intersection of spans of any couple of resulting scatter lists is > > empty. > > - the union of spans of all resulting scatter lists is a subrange of > > the span of the original scatter list. > > - streaming DMA API operations (mapping, unmapping) should not happen > > both on both the resulting and the original scatter list. It's either > > the first or the later ones. > > - the caller is reponsible to call kfree() on the resulting > > scatterlists. > > > > Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarz...@free.fr> > > I think this looks fine. But do we really need the Kconfig option? It's > not a lot of code, and it seems silly to put the onus on the driver for > having to enable something that is a subset of the SG api. Blame me for that. It's so that all kernels don't need to carry a lump of code which only a small number of media drivers actually use. The tradeoff is a bit of once-off build-time effort versus a permanent runtime gain for many systems. That's a good tradeoff. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
