[PATCH v3 RESEND] dma-mapping: add new API for max_segment_number

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 06:40:35 -0600
Matthew Wilcox <matthew at wil.cx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 08:30:53PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > Here is the user story that tells the need of the new api.  The
> > mxs-mmc is the mmc host controller for Freescale MXS architecture.
> > There are a pair of  mmc host specific parameters max_seg_size and
> > max_segs that mxs-mmc host driver needs to tell mmc core, so that
> > mmc core can know how big each data segment could be and how many
> > segments could be handled one time in a scatter list by host driver.
> > 
> > The mxs-mmc driver is one user of dmaengine mxs-dma, and it will call
> > mxs-dma to transfer data in scatter list.  That is to say mxs-mmc has
> > no idea of what max_seg_size and max_segs should be, because they are
> > all mxs-dma capability parameters, and mxs-mmc needs to query them
> > from mxs-dma.
> 
> This approach would make sense if mxs-mmc were generic, but it's tied to
> mxs-dma, so it can just as well call mxs-dma to find out how many segments
> it supports.

SCSI HBA drivers stores the max number of sg entries in
host->sg_tablesize (and scsi-ml tells the block layer about the
limit)? So if we have the generic API to handle the value, scsi HBA
drivers (and scsi-ml) could use it too?