>From: Andrew Morton [mailto:[email protected]]
>On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:20:25 -0700
>Shannon Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Add support for version 2 of the ioatdma device. This device handles
>> the descriptor chain and DCA services slightly differently:
>> - Instead of moving the dma descriptors between a busy and
>an idle chain,
>> this new version uses a single circular chain so that we
>don't have
>> rewrite the next_descriptor pointers as we add new
>requests, and the
>> device doesn't need to re-read the last descriptor.
>> - The new device has the DCA tags defined internally
>instead of needing
>> them defined statically.
>>
Andrew,
Thank you for your time and the review comments. I'll attend to the
details and repost.
sln
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