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author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2009-07-14 12:19:02 -0700 |
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committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2009-08-29 19:09:27 -0700 |
commit | ccd246fcfc4b222f17d111f290692420c734a7ed (patch) | |
tree | eb66e5aea8bcc0288ee79a218d23f9481fca36f2 /crypto/cast6.c | |
parent | 7f33ecece81b95a7c2f8d814d39054851754f90e (diff) | |
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async_tx: remove walk of tx->parent chain in dma_wait_for_async_tx
We currently walk the parent chain when waiting for a given tx to
complete however this walk may race with the driver cleanup routine.
The routines in async_raid6_recov.c may fall back to the synchronous
path at any point so we need to be prepared to call async_tx_quiesce()
(which calls dma_wait_for_async_tx). To remove the ->parent walk we
guarantee that every time a dependency is attached ->issue_pending() is
invoked, then we can simply poll the initial descriptor until
completion.
This also allows for a lighter weight 'issue pending' implementation as
there is no longer a requirement to iterate through all the channels'
->issue_pending() routines as long as operations have been submitted in
an ordered chain. async_tx_issue_pending() is added for this case.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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