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| author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2009-04-10 03:16:18 +0400 |
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| committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2009-06-04 01:07:34 +0400 |
| commit | 88ba2aa586c874681c072101287e15d40de7e6e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 69a124fcd0a8a75ef9aae0cc4081bad83c770374 /crypto/async_tx/async_memset.c | |
| parent | 099f53cb50e45ef617a9f1d63ceec799e489418b (diff) | |
| download | linux-88ba2aa586c874681c072101287e15d40de7e6e2.tar.xz | |
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_memset.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/async_tx/async_memset.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/async_tx/async_memset.c b/crypto/async_tx/async_memset.c index 5b5eb99bb244..b2f133885b7f 100644 --- a/crypto/async_tx/async_memset.c +++ b/crypto/async_tx/async_memset.c @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ * @val: fill value * @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: memset 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 |