Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet DMA coalescing

From: jschopp <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:20:10 -0500

Linas Vepstas wrote:
> The current driver code performs 512 DMA mappns of a bunch of 
> 32-byte structures. This is silly, as they are all in contiguous 
> memory. Ths patch changes the code to DMA map the entie area
> with just one call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <[email-masked]>
> Cc: James K Lewis <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email-masked]>

The others look good, but this one complicates the code and doesn't have any benefit.  20 
for 21 isn't bad.