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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4 v1] i.MX31: Image Processing Unit DMA and IRQ drivers
    Hi Dan,

    On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Dan Williams wrote:

    > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Guennadi Liakhovetski
    > <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> wrote:
    > > I still have no solution to this ->client_count problem. Is this a bug and
    > > there should be a way to release a channel (including decrementint the
    > > client_count) without unregistering the client, or am I missing something?
    > >
    >
    > Hi Guennadi,
    >
    > I am currently working on improving this situation:
    >
    > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122463374500746&w=2
    >
    > Please have a look.

    Thanks for the pointer, I looked at it.

    1. ASYNC_TX_ACK: one either sets this flag immediately on a descriptor in
    flags for ->device_prep_dma_memcpy() (like in
    dma_async_memcpy_buf_to_buf()), which would mean "may be recycled
    automatically" or you don't set it, then the descriptor is kept, until you
    call async_tx_ack() on it. Are you going to preserve the async_tx_ack()
    implementation? In this case dma-device drivers have to scan their
    descriptors to do garbage-collection?... Wouldn't it be better to
    introduce an explicit call to free a descriptor, like in this my patch:
    http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=122607472721145&w=2 (see the last
    hank for include/linux/dmaengine.h)?

    2. channel client-count: am I right, that with the current implementation
    one cannot free a channel in a way, that its client_count got decremented,
    and the ->device_free_chan_resources() method be called for it? Is this
    going to be addressed too or I am missing something and channel freeing
    has to be done differently?

    3. you write

    > 3b/ Remove the client registration infrastructure

    which means, there should be an interface to free a channel explicitly?
    because until now unregistering the client was the only way (that I found)
    to free channels...

    Thanks
    Guennadi
    ---
    Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
    Freelance Open-Source Software Developer


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