Re: [PATCH][RT] 2.6.24-rc2-rt1 drivers/dma/ioat_dma.c compile fix

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Nelson, Shannon wrote:
> first->async_tx.phys;
> > -       __list_splice(&new_chain, ioat_chan->used_desc.prev);
> > +       list_splice_tail(&new_chain, ioat_chan->used_desc.prev);
> >
>
> NAK.
>
> These functions do insertions differently.  The 'prev' is pointing to
> the last valid descriptor in the queue and you really want to get the
> new_chain stuck on after this.  Your list_splice_tail() will insert the
> new_chain just before it which will muck up the order of the DMA
> requests.
>
> You might have more success with
> 	list_splice_tail(&new_chain, ioat_chan->used_desc);
> where used_desc points to the whole list, rather than using the .prev
> pointer to a specific node.
>
> Please copy me on future ioatdma related comments.
>

And people wonder why we post RT related patches to LKML. This is exactly
why!

Thanks for the response Shannon!

-- Steve

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