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From: "saeed bishara" <saeed.bishara@gmail.com>
To: "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
	neilb@suse.de, "Nelson, Shannon" <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [md-accel PATCH 16/19] dmaengine: driver for the iop32x, iop33x, and iop13xx raid engines
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:43:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c70ff3ad0708301143w55bf296p37b0991d7f099fd6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0C7297FA1D2D244A9C7F6959C0BF1E52025B10E4@azsmsx413.amr.corp.intel.com>

you are right, I've another question regarding the function
dma_wait_for_async_tx from async_tx.c, here is the body of the code:
       /* poll through the dependency chain, return when tx is complete */
1.        do {
2.                 iter = tx;
3.                 while (iter->cookie == -EBUSY)
4.                         iter = iter->parent;
5.
6.                 status = dma_sync_wait(iter->chan, iter->cookie);
7.         } while (status == DMA_IN_PROGRESS || (iter != tx));

assume that:
- The interrupt capability is not provided.
- Request A was sent to chan 0
- Request B that depends on A is sent to chan 1
- Request C that depends on B is send to chan 2.
- Also, assume that when C is handled by async_tx_submit(), B is still
not queued to the dmaengine (cookie equals to -EBUSY).

In this case, dma_wait_for_async_tx will be called for C, now, it
looks for me that the do while will loop forever, even when A gets
completed. this is because the iter will point to B after line 4, thus
the iter != tx (C) will always become true.

saeed

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-30 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-27  1:50 [md-accel PATCH 00/19] md raid acceleration and the async_tx api Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:50 ` [md-accel PATCH 01/19] dmaengine: refactor dmaengine around dma_async_tx_descriptor Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:50 ` [md-accel PATCH 02/19] dmaengine: make clients responsible for managing channels Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:50 ` [md-accel PATCH 03/19] xor: make 'xor_blocks' a library routine for use with async_tx Dan Williams
2007-06-27  6:39   ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-27 16:13     ` Dan Williams
2007-06-27 16:22       ` Herbert Xu
2007-06-27  1:50 ` [md-accel PATCH 04/19] async_tx: add the async_tx api Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:51 ` [md-accel PATCH 05/19] raid5: refactor handle_stripe5 and handle_stripe6 (v2) Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:51 ` [md-accel PATCH 06/19] raid5: replace custom debug PRINTKs with standard pr_debug Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:51 ` [md-accel PATCH 07/19] md: raid5_run_ops - run stripe operations outside sh->lock Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:51 ` [md-accel PATCH 08/19] md: common infrastructure for running operations with raid5_run_ops Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:51 ` [md-accel PATCH 09/19] md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async write ops Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:51 ` [md-accel PATCH 10/19] md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async compute ops Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:51 ` [md-accel PATCH 11/19] md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async check ops Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:51 ` [md-accel PATCH 12/19] md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async read ops Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:51 ` [md-accel PATCH 13/19] md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async expand ops Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:51 ` [md-accel PATCH 14/19] md: handle_stripe5 - request io processing in raid5_run_ops Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:51 ` [md-accel PATCH 15/19] md: remove raid5 compute_block and compute_parity5 Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:51 ` [md-accel PATCH 16/19] dmaengine: driver for the iop32x, iop33x, and iop13xx raid engines Dan Williams
2007-08-27 13:11   ` saeed bishara
2007-08-27 13:14     ` saeed bishara
2007-08-27 19:31       ` Williams, Dan J
2007-08-30 18:43         ` saeed bishara [this message]
2007-08-30 20:41           ` Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:52 ` [md-accel PATCH 17/19] iop13xx: surface the iop13xx adma units to the iop-adma driver Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:52 ` [md-accel PATCH 18/19] iop3xx: surface the iop3xx DMA and AAU " Dan Williams
2007-06-27  1:52 ` [md-accel PATCH 19/19] ARM: Add drivers/dma to arch/arm/Kconfig Dan Williams
2007-06-27 16:45 ` [md-accel PATCH 00/19] md raid acceleration and the async_tx api Bill Davidsen
2007-06-27 17:09   ` Williams, Dan J

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