[PATCH 07/13] ath10k: implement host memory chunks

Kalle Valo kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Thu Sep 26 05:04:12 EDT 2013


Bartosz Markowski <bartosz.markowski at tieto.com> writes:

> 10.X firmware can request a memory pool from host to offload
> it's own resources. This is a feature designed especially
> for AP mode where the target has to deal with large number
> of peers.
>
> So we allocate and map a consistent DMA memory which FW can
> use to store e.g. peer rate contol maps.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Markowski <bartosz.markowski at tieto.com>

[...]

> +		if (num_unit_info) {
> +			if (num_unit_info & NUM_UNITS_IS_NUM_PEERS)
> +				/* number of units to allocate is number of
> +				 * peers, 1 extra for self peer on target */
> +				/* this needs to be tied, host and target
> +				 * can get out of sync */
> +				num_units = TARGET_NUM_PEERS + 1;
> +			if (num_unit_info & NUM_UNITS_IS_NUM_VDEVS)
> +				num_units = TARGET_NUM_VDEVS + 1;
> +		}

The outer if test looks useless. I think this can be simplified to just:

if (num_unit_info & NUM_UNITS_IS_NUM_PEERS)
        ....
else if (num_unit_info & NUM_UNITS_IS_NUM_VDEVS)
        ...

-- 
Kalle Valo



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