[PATCH v2 1/1] net/macb: add TX multiqueue support for gem

David Laight David.Laight at ACULAB.COM
Fri Dec 12 01:45:30 PST 2014


From: Thomas Petazzoni
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:16:51 +0100, Cyrille Pitchen wrote:
> 
> > +#define GEM_ISR1				0x0400
> > +#define GEM_ISR2				0x0404
> > +#define GEM_ISR3				0x0408
> > +#define GEM_ISR4				0x040c
> > +#define GEM_ISR5				0x0410
> > +#define GEM_ISR6				0x0414
> > +#define GEM_ISR7				0x0418
> 
> What about doing instead:
> 
> #define GEM_ISR(q)				((q) == 0 ? MACB_ISR : 0x400 + (q) << 2)
> 
> And ditto for all other registers, which will save a lot of boring repeated code.

It will probably add a lot of object code and, depending on how often
the registers are accesses, might have performance impact.

Having:
#define GEM_ISR(n) (0x400 + (n) << 4)
will save source code.

	David






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