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| author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2009-04-09 16:16:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2009-06-03 14:07:34 -0700 |
| commit | 88ba2aa586c874681c072101287e15d40de7e6e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 69a124fcd0a8a75ef9aae0cc4081bad83c770374 /crypto/async_tx/async_memcpy.c | |
| parent | 099f53cb50e45ef617a9f1d63ceec799e489418b (diff) | |
| download | linux-88ba2aa586c874681c072101287e15d40de7e6e2.tar.bz2 | |
async_tx: kill ASYNC_TX_DEP_ACK flag
In support of inter-channel chaining async_tx utilizes an ack flag to
gate whether a dependent operation can be chained to another. While the
flag is not set the chain can be considered open for appending. Setting
the ack flag closes the chain and flags the descriptor for garbage
collection. The ASYNC_TX_DEP_ACK flag essentially means "close the
chain after adding this dependency". Since each operation can only have
one child the api now implicitly sets the ack flag at dependency
submission time. This removes an unnecessary management burden from
clients of the api.
[ Impact: clean up and enforce one dependency per operation ]
Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/async_tx/async_memcpy.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/async_tx/async_memcpy.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/async_tx/async_memcpy.c b/crypto/async_tx/async_memcpy.c index ddccfb01c416..7117ec6f1b74 100644 --- a/crypto/async_tx/async_memcpy.c +++ b/crypto/async_tx/async_memcpy.c @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ * @src: src page * @offset: offset in pages to start transaction * @len: length in bytes - * @flags: ASYNC_TX_ACK, ASYNC_TX_DEP_ACK, + * @flags: ASYNC_TX_ACK * @depend_tx: memcpy depends on the result of this transaction * @cb_fn: function to call when the memcpy completes * @cb_param: parameter to pass to the callback routine |