From: Anup Patel <anup.patel@broadcom.com>
To: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>,
Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux ARM Kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Device Tree <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
dmaengine@vger.kernel.org,
BCM Kernel Feedback <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Common flags for sba_request state and fence
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 11:35:51 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAALAos-UJ4QLbtyE0XzPR=HepDH1m4YnLQG=nTwaL47991F7vw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170818052501.GD3053@localhost>
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 10:26:54AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 04:07:47PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
>> >> This patch merges sba_request state and fence into common
>> >> sba_request flags. Also, in-future we can extend sba_request
>> >> flags as required.
>> >
>> > and it also changes the flag values to bits, which I have no idea why that
>> > was done, care to explain that please...
>>
>> I thought its better to have separate bit each sba_request state so
>> that when a sba_request is accidentally in two states then we can
>> debug better.
>
> that is fine, but you need to comminucate the motivation behind such a
> change!!
Okay, I will add this info to commit description.
>
>>
>> I will restore state values.
>
> either ways am okay, but if we are not using bits smartly then why to change
Okay, I will keep new state values as-is and only update commit
description.
Regards,
Anup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-18 6:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-01 10:37 [PATCH v2 00/16] Broadcom SBA-RAID driver improvements Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 01/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Minor improvments in comments Anup Patel
2017-08-17 3:44 ` Vinod Koul
2017-08-18 4:54 ` Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 02/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Reduce locking context in sba_alloc_request() Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 03/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Common flags for sba_request state and fence Anup Patel
2017-08-17 3:45 ` Vinod Koul
2017-08-18 4:56 ` Anup Patel
2017-08-18 5:25 ` Vinod Koul
2017-08-18 6:05 ` Anup Patel [this message]
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 04/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Remove redundant next_count from sba_request Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 05/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Remove redundant resp_dma " Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 06/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Remove reqs_free_count from sba_device Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 07/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Allow arbitrary number free sba_request Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 08/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Increase number of " Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 09/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Improve sba_issue_pending() run duration Anup Patel
2017-08-17 6:36 ` Vinod Koul
2017-08-18 6:12 ` Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 10/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Alloc resources before registering DMA device Anup Patel
2017-08-17 6:38 ` Vinod Koul
2017-08-18 5:01 ` Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 11/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Peek mbox when we have no free requests Anup Patel
2017-08-17 6:40 ` Vinod Koul
2017-08-18 11:36 ` Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 12/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Pre-ack async tx descriptor Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 13/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Re-factor sba_process_deferred_requests() Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 14/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Remove redundant SBA_REQUEST_STATE_RECEIVED Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 15/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Add debugfs support Anup Patel
2017-08-17 8:01 ` Vinod Koul
2017-08-18 5:03 ` Anup Patel
2017-08-18 5:26 ` Vinod Koul
2017-08-18 5:25 ` Anup Patel
2017-09-07 19:37 ` Greg KH
2017-09-08 4:09 ` Vinod Koul
2017-08-01 10:38 ` [PATCH v2 16/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Explicitly ACK mailbox message after sending Anup Patel
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