linux/include/net/netdma.h
Dan Williams 6f49a57aa5 dmaengine: up-level reference counting to the module level
Simply, if a client wants any dmaengine channel then prevent all dmaengine
modules from being removed.  Once the clients are done re-enable module
removal.

Why?, beyond reducing complication:
1/ Tracking reference counts per-transaction in an efficient manner, as
   is currently done, requires a complicated scheme to avoid cache-line
   bouncing effects.
2/ Per-transaction ref-counting gives the false impression that a
   dma-driver can be gracefully removed ahead of its user (net, md, or
   dma-slave)
3/ None of the in-tree dma-drivers talk to hot pluggable hardware, but
   if such an engine were built one day we still would not need to notify
   clients of remove events.  The driver can simply return NULL to a
   ->prep() request, something that is much easier for a client to handle.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-01-06 11:38:14 -07:00

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/*
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*
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#ifndef NETDMA_H
#define NETDMA_H
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_DMA
#include <linux/dmaengine.h>
#include <linux/skbuff.h>
static inline struct dma_chan *get_softnet_dma(void)
{
struct dma_chan *chan;
rcu_read_lock();
chan = rcu_dereference(__get_cpu_var(softnet_data).net_dma);
rcu_read_unlock();
return chan;
}
int dma_skb_copy_datagram_iovec(struct dma_chan* chan,
struct sk_buff *skb, int offset, struct iovec *to,
size_t len, struct dma_pinned_list *pinned_list);
#endif /* CONFIG_NET_DMA */
#endif /* NETDMA_H */