[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] usb: align buffers at cacheline
Marek Vasut
marex at denx.de
Wed Feb 29 22:38:58 CET 2012
> Hi Marek,
> IMO, Simon has already mentioned the reason of using
> ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER,
> Please find below my explanation about other doubts.
>
> On Monday 27 February 2012 10:19 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >> As DMA expects the buffers to be equal and larger then
> >> cache lines, This aligns buffers at cacheline.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Puneet Saxena<puneets at nvidia.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jim Lin<jilin at nvidia.com>
> >> ---
> >
> > First of all, thanks for this patch, it really helps. But, there are a
> > few things that concern me.
> >
> >> Changes for V2:
> >> - Use "ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN" directly
> >> - Use "ALIGN" to align size as cacheline
> >> - Removed headers from usb.h
> >> - Send 8 bytes of device descriptor size to read
> >>
> >> Max packet size
> >>
> >> scsi.h header is needed to avoid extra memcpy from local buffer
> >> to global buffer.
> >>
> >> common/cmd_usb.c | 3 +-
> >> common/usb.c | 61
> >>
> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ common/usb_storage.c |
> >> 59 +++++++++++++++++++---------------------- disk/part_dos.c
> >> |
> >>
> >> 2 +-
> >>
> >> drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c | 8 +++++
> >> include/scsi.h | 4 ++-
> >> 6 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/common/cmd_usb.c b/common/cmd_usb.c
I see, thanks for explaining!
M
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