Re: [RFCv2 00/10] xhci: re-work command queue management

From: Sarah Sharp
Date: Thu Jan 30 2014 - 17:40:11 EST


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 02:25:48PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> I think it would be much simpler to allocate a parallel array to the actual
> hardware command ring that contains the additional information for the request
> (instead of allocating it pre-request).
> This would immediately solve any problems allocating the memory from interrupt
> context and failing to free in correctly in all the code paths.
>
> A similar solution could be used for the transfer rings thus removing the
> need to the 'td' list - which there are reports of it failing to find transfers
> and the code paths for aborting isoch transfers are badly broken.
>
> Adding another list that will have its own set of bugs seems retrograde top me.

I do not have a problem with it. The shadow ring is an optimization we
can look at later.

Sarah Sharp
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