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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 04/11] dmaengine: Introduce max SG list entries capability
On 10-07-20, 19:14, Serge Semin wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 02:51:33PM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:

> > Since we should be able to handle longer lists and this is kind of a
> > hint for clients that above this number of nents the list will be broken
> > up to smaller 'bursts', which when traversing could cause latency.
> >
> > sg_chunk_len might be another candidate.
>
> Ok. We've got four candidates:
> - max_sg_nents_burst
> - max_sg_burst
> - max_sg_chain
> - sg_chunk_len
>
> @Vinod, @Andy, what do you think?

So IIUC your hw supports single sg and in that you would like to publish
the length of each chunk, is that correct? If so sg_chunk_len seems
apt..

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~Vinod

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