Re: [PATCH 21/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet DMA coalescing

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Linas Vepstas wrote:
The current driver code performs 512 DMA mappns of a bunch of 32-byte structures. This is silly, as they are all in contiguous memory. Ths patch changes the code to DMA map the entie area
with just one call.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <[email protected]>
Cc: James K Lewis <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>

While this patch wasn't useful in the current cell implementation of pci_map_single it sounds like people are going to be making changes to that sometime. In light of that new information (new to me anyway) this should probably go in after all. Sorry for causing trouble.

Acked-by: Joel Schopp <[email protected]>

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