[PATCH 0/2] dmaengine: Add scatter-gathered memset support

Vinod Koul vinod.koul at intel.com
Tue Aug 4 22:30:28 PDT 2015


On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 12:19:22PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi Vinod,
> 
> Here is a patch serie that adds a new dmaengine operation for
> scatter-gathered memset.
> 
> Indeed, doing a memset over a discontiguous buffer is quite
> inefficient at the moment, since you have to create and submit each
> chunk separately, which might result in a huge list of transfers,
> while some controllers can handle that just fine.

Applied, thanks

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~Vinod




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