Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Crypto: Talitos: Support for Async_tx XOR offload

2009-12-17 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Kumar Gala wrote: >> The specific case it is needed for Talitos/raid is a channel switch >> interrupt.  The interrupt causes the cleanup operation to be run which will >> kick off any pending dependent operations on the xor channel.  In the raid >> case we only

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Crypto: Talitos: Support for Async_tx XOR offload

2009-12-17 Thread Kumar Gala
On Dec 17, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > Ira W. Snyder wrote: >> Yes, I have used the device_prep_dma_interrupt() functionality quite a >> while back. However, I found it to be pretty much useless. > > The specific case it is needed for Talitos/raid is a channel switch > interrupt.

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Crypto: Talitos: Support for Async_tx XOR offload

2009-12-17 Thread Dan Williams
Ira W. Snyder wrote: Yes, I have used the device_prep_dma_interrupt() functionality quite a while back. However, I found it to be pretty much useless. The specific case it is needed for Talitos/raid is a channel switch interrupt. The interrupt causes the cleanup operation to be run which wil

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Crypto: Talitos: Support for Async_tx XOR offload

2009-12-17 Thread Kumar Gala
On Dec 17, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Ira W. Snyder wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 03:47:48PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: >> Kumar Gala wrote: > Changes with respect to v1 as per comments received > o. Rebased to linux-next as of 20091216 > o. The selection is based exclusive of fsldma >

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Crypto: Talitos: Support for Async_tx XOR offload

2009-12-17 Thread Ira W. Snyder
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 03:47:48PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > Kumar Gala wrote: > >>> Changes with respect to v1 as per comments received > >>> o. Rebased to linux-next as of 20091216 > >>> o. The selection is based exclusive of fsldma > >>> o. Intoduced a new Kernel Configuration variable > >>>