[media] videobuf2-dma-sg: Allocate pages as contiguous as possible
authorRicardo Ribalda <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Fri, 2 Aug 2013 13:19:59 +0000 (10:19 -0300)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:33:01 +0000 (07:33 -0300)
commitdf23728118cd0f53070769e2ac26a255f66daa57
treea64d32ebea478de89333920d23ac67474be3580e
parent819585bc4811bc54e316dfe521ce163816fa0ad1
[media] videobuf2-dma-sg: Allocate pages as contiguous as possible

Most DMA engines have limitations regarding the number of DMA segments
(sg-buffers) that they can handle. Videobuffers can easily spread
through hundreds of pages.
In the previous aproach, the pages were allocated individually, this
could led to the creation houndreds of dma segments (sg-buffers) that
could not be handled by some DMA engines.
This patch tries to minimize the number of DMA segments by using
alloc_pages. In the worst case it will behave as before, but most
of the times it will reduce the number of dma segments

Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-dma-sg.c