[PATCH v2 00/10] Tidy some minor things in the stream table/cd table area

Nicolin Chen nicolinc at nvidia.com
Mon Jun 10 20:27:29 PDT 2024


On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 09:31:09PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Will pointed out that two places referring to the CD/STE struct did not
> get the new types. While auditing this code a few more oddities were
> noticed. Based on a feedback from Mostafa and Nicolin a few more things
> were fixed up too
> 
> - Use types for all the HW structures everywhere even for the L1
>   descriptors that are just a single 8 bytes. This helps with clarity of
>   what everthing is pointing at
> - Use indexing helpers for the STE/CD two level calculations
> - Use sizeof(struct X) instead of open coded math on constants. The sizeof
>   naturally follows the type of the related variable in almost all cases
> - Remove redundant dma_addr_t's and save some memory
> - Remove redundant devm usage
> - Use the modern rbtree API
> 
> Parts of this have been sitting in my tree for a while now, it grew a bit
> since v1, but nothing is particularly profound here. Enough is merged now
> that they can be cleanly based and are seperate from my other series.
> 
> v2:
>  - Add a patch to add structs for the L1/L2 HW layouts and use their
>    sizeof and type instead of constants and generic __le64 *.
>  - Add a patch for L1/L2 indexing helpers for clarity
>  - Reorder patches
>  - Redo the union layout in the cfg for both cases
>  - Fully remove some more defines

For the entire series,

Tested-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc at nvidia.com>



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