Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965683AbaLLJw3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 04:52:29 -0500 Received: from down.free-electrons.com ([37.187.137.238]:35645 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965582AbaLLJw1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 04:52:27 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:52:12 +0100 From: Thomas Petazzoni To: David Laight Cc: Cyrille Pitchen , "nicolas.ferre@atmel.com" , "davem@davemloft.net" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] net/macb: add TX multiqueue support for gem Message-ID: <20141212105212.3b9c5810@free-electrons.com> In-Reply-To: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D1CA0BA36@AcuExch.aculab.com> References: <87a3098203ee6eaa7a60607713a293d3258e2b58.1418291637.git.cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com> <20141211203103.4191887a@free-electrons.com> <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D1CA0BA36@AcuExch.aculab.com> Organization: Free Electrons X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dear David Laight, On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:45:30 +0000, David Laight wrote: > From: Thomas Petazzoni > > On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:16:51 +0100, Cyrille Pitchen wrote: > > > > > +#define GEM_ISR1 0x0400 > > > +#define GEM_ISR2 0x0404 > > > +#define GEM_ISR3 0x0408 > > > +#define GEM_ISR4 0x040c > > > +#define GEM_ISR5 0x0410 > > > +#define GEM_ISR6 0x0414 > > > +#define GEM_ISR7 0x0418 > > > > What about doing instead: > > > > #define GEM_ISR(q) ((q) == 0 ? MACB_ISR : 0x400 + (q) << 2) > > > > And ditto for all other registers, which will save a lot of boring repeated code. > > It will probably add a lot of object code and, depending on how often > the registers are accesses, might have performance impact. > > Having: > #define GEM_ISR(n) (0x400 + (n) << 4) > will save source code. Except that this won't work for n == 0, because for n == 0, the register offset is not 0x400. And in fact, my code was also wrong, it should be: ((q) == 0 ? MACB_ISR : 0x400 + ((q)-1) << 2)) Since q=1 is at 0x400. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/