On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Guennadi Liakhovetski
[off-list ref] wrote:

From: Guennadi Liakhovetski <redacted>

Some users reuse DMA transaction descriptors multiple times and need an
explicit call to release them. An example of such a user is Video4Linux, which
has to be able to release descriptors on ioctl(VIDIOC_DQBUF).

Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <redacted>

Hi Guennadi,

Other dmaengine drivers have tasklets that scan the list of completed
descriptors and free the "acked" ones.  This happens in the cleanup
tasklet...
/me looks
...hmm this driver does not have a cleanup routine?  Ideally support
for ioctl(VIDIOC_DQBUF) could be achieved through this mechanism
without needing to increase the size of dma_async_tx_descriptor (which
has cache utilization impacts on other drivers).

--
Dan