On Mon, Oct 29 2007 at 22:16 +0200, Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26 2007, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> [CRYPTO] tcrypt: Move sg_init_table out of timing loops
>>
>> This patch moves the sg_init_table out of the timing loops for hash
>> algorithms so that it doesn't impact on the speed test results.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to just make sg_init_one() call sg_init_table?
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/scatterlist.h b/include/linux/scatterlist.h
> index 4571231..ccc55a6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/scatterlist.h
> +++ b/include/linux/scatterlist.h
> @@ -202,28 +202,6 @@ static inline void __sg_mark_end(struct scatterlist *sg)
> }
>
> /**
> - * sg_init_one - Initialize a single entry sg list
> - * @sg: SG entry
> - * @buf: Virtual address for IO
> - * @buflen: IO length
> - *
> - * Notes:
> - * This should not be used on a single entry that is part of a larger
> - * table. Use sg_init_table() for that.
> - *
> - **/
> -static inline void sg_init_one(struct scatterlist *sg, const void *buf,
> - unsigned int buflen)
> -{
> - memset(sg, 0, sizeof(*sg));
> -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SG
> - sg->sg_magic = SG_MAGIC;
> -#endif
> - sg_mark_end(sg, 1);
> - sg_set_buf(sg, buf, buflen);
> -}
> -
> -/**
> * sg_init_table - Initialize SG table
> * @sgl: The SG table
> * @nents: Number of entries in table
> @@ -247,6 +225,24 @@ static inline void sg_init_table(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents)
> }
>
> /**
> + * sg_init_one - Initialize a single entry sg list
> + * @sg: SG entry
> + * @buf: Virtual address for IO
> + * @buflen: IO length
> + *
> + * Notes:
> + * This should not be used on a single entry that is part of a larger
> + * table. Use sg_init_table() for that.
> + *
> + **/
> +static inline void sg_init_one(struct scatterlist *sg, const void *buf,
> + unsigned int buflen)
> +{
> + sg_init_table(sg, 1);
> + sg_set_buf(sg, buf, buflen);
> +}
> +
> +/**
> * sg_phys - Return physical address of an sg entry
> * @sg: SG entry
> *
>
Yes please submit this patch. scsi-ml is full of sg_init_one, specially
on the error recovery path.
Thanks
Boaz
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