Re: [PATCH 4/6] rionet: add memory access to simulated Ethernet over rapidio

On Tue, 12 May 2009 16:36:01 +0800
Li Yang [off-list ref] wrote:

Through the newly added IO memory access of RapidIO, sender can
write directly to recipient's rx buffer, either by cpu or DMA engine.

...

+/* Definitions for rionet memory map driver */
+#define RIONET_DRVID		0x101
+#define RIONET_MAX_SK_DATA_SIZE	0x1000
+#define RIONET_MEM_RIO_BASE	0x10000000
+#define RIONET_TX_RX_BUFF_SIZE	(0x1000 * (128 + 128))
+#define RIONET_QUEUE_NEXT(x)	(((x) < 127) ? ((x) + 1) : 0)

References its arg multiple times, hence is buggy or inefficient when
passed an expression with side-effects.

	static inline int rionet_queue_next(int x)

would be better.  Assuming that some sane identifier is used instead of
"x".

+#define RIONET_QUEUE_INC(x)	(x = RIONET_QUEUE_NEXT(x))

It's pretty ugly to hide an assignment inside a macro like this.  Why
not do

	foo = rionet_queue_inc(foo);

at the callsites?  It makes it much clearer for the reader.

...

+#ifdef CONFIG_RIONET_MEMMAP
+static int rio_send_mem(struct sk_buff *skb,
+				struct net_device *ndev, struct rio_dev *rdev)
+{
+	struct rionet_private *rnet = netdev_priv(ndev);
+	int enqueue, dequeue;
+
+	if (!rdev)
+		return -EFAULT;

Is that an appropriate error code?

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