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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Improve DMA transfers by increasing the buffer
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Aurelien Jarno |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Improve DMA transfers by increasing the buffer size. |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:22:30 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) |
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:35:52AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Aurelien Jarno writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Improve DMA transfers by
> increasing the buffer size."):
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 04:35:00PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Content-Description: message body text
> > > +#define IDE_DMA_BUF_SIZE 131072
> >
> > Wouldn't it be better to define this value in number of sectors? This
> > would avoid a few divisions in the code, and anyway the code handling
> > DMA transfers is working with a number of sectors, not a number of
> > bytes.
>
> I don't have much of an opinion about what units it should be in. The
> divisions are just at compile-time of course.
I agree that the generated assembly code should not be different, but
this makes the code less readable.
> If you prefer I'll send another version with it done in sectors :-).
Please send it, I will commit it.
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