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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-09-09 02:42:50 +0200
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-09-09 02:42:50 +0200
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dmaengine: add fence support
Some engines optimize operation by reading ahead in the descriptor chain such that descriptor2 may start execution before descriptor1 completes. If descriptor2 depends on the result from descriptor1 then a fence is required (on descriptor2) to disable this optimization. The async_tx api could implicitly identify dependencies via the 'depend_tx' parameter, but that would constrain cases where the dependency chain only specifies a completion order rather than a data dependency. So, provide an ASYNC_TX_FENCE to explicitly identify data dependencies. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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