On 21 June 2011 07:41, Kishore Kadiyala [off-list ref] wrote:

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+
+static void omap_hsmmc_pre_req(struct mmc_host *mmc, struct mmc_request *mrq,
+ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?bool is_first_req)

I don't see the usage of "is_first_req" below.
Is it required?

It is not required. It is only an indication that this request is the
first in a series of request. The host driver may do various
optimisations based on this information. The first request in a series
of jobs can't be prepared in parallel to the previous job. The host
driver can do the following to minimise latency for the first job.
 * Preparing the cache while the MMC read/write cmd is being
processed. In this case the pre_req could do nothing and the job is
instead run in parallel to the read/write cmd being sent. If the
is_first_req is false pre_req will run in parallel to an active
transfer, in this case it is more efficient to prepare the request in
pre_req.
 * Run PIO mode instead of DMA
 * Maybe there can be power related optimisations based on if it is
one single transfer or multiple ones.

quoted

+{
+ ? ? ? struct omap_hsmmc_host *host = mmc_priv(mmc);
+
+ ? ? ? if (mrq->data->host_cookie) {
+ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? mrq->data->host_cookie = 0;
+ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? return ;
+ ? ? ? }
+
+ ? ? ? if (host->use_dma)
+ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? if (omap_hsmmc_pre_dma_transfer(host, mrq->data,
+ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? &host->next_data))
+ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? mrq->data->host_cookie = 0;
+}
+
?/*

Thanks for your comments,
Per