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dmaengine, async_tx: add a "no channel switch" allocator
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Wed, 9 Sep 2009 00:42:51 +0000 (17:42 -0700)
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Wed, 9 Sep 2009 00:42:51 +0000 (17:42 -0700)
commit138f4c359d23d2ec38d18bd70dd9613ae515fe93
treead7fafba6eac74d9d92ade839a65171466d67a70
parent0403e3827788d878163f9ef0541b748b0f88ca5d
dmaengine, async_tx: add a "no channel switch" allocator

Channel switching is problematic for some dmaengine drivers as the
architecture precludes separating the ->prep from ->submit.  In these
cases the driver can select ASYNC_TX_DISABLE_CHANNEL_SWITCH to modify
the async_tx allocator to only return channels that support all of the
required asynchronous operations.

For example MD_RAID456=y selects support for asynchronous xor, xor
validate, pq, pq validate, and memcpy.  When
ASYNC_TX_DISABLE_CHANNEL_SWITCH=y any channel with all these
capabilities is marked DMA_ASYNC_TX allowing async_tx_find_channel() to
quickly locate compatible channels with the guarantee that dependency
chains will remain on one channel.  When
ASYNC_TX_DISABLE_CHANNEL_SWITCH=n async_tx_find_channel() may select
channels that lead to operation chains that need to cross channel
boundaries using the async_tx channel switch capability.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
crypto/async_tx/async_tx.c
drivers/dma/Kconfig
drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
include/linux/dmaengine.h