RE: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 - s390 vs. md

["Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>]

> From: Cornelia Huck [mailto:cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com]
> Finer granularity is certainly better here, but I'm not quite sure if
> this solves our s390 problem (we don't have dma support). All those
> backends should also have a non-dma version...

In fact that is already there.  Here is the form of async_memcpy for
example:
... async_memcpy( ... )
{
	struct dma_chan *chan = async_tx_find_channel(depend_tx,
DMA_MEMCPY);
	struct dma_device *device = chan ? chan->device : NULL;
	int int_en = callback ? 1 : 0;
	struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx = device ?
		device->device_prep_dma_memcpy(chan, len,
		int_en) : NULL;

	if (tx) { /* run the memcpy asynchronously */

		...

	} else { /* run the memcpy synchronously */

		...
	}
}

When CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE=n async_tx_find_channel takes the form:
... async_tx_find_channel( ... )
{
	return NULL;
}

So in the S390 case the entire asynchronous path will be compiled away.

--
Dan
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