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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86-64: trivial gart clean-up
    On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:42:43AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

    > On Tuesday 25 April 2006 00:53, Jon Mason wrote:
    > > A trivial change to have gart_unmap_sg call gart_unmap_single directly,
    > > instead of bouncing through the dma_unmap_single wrapper in
    > > dma-mapping.h. This change required moving the gart_unmap_single above
    > > gart_unmap_sg, and under gart_map_single (which seems a more logical
    > > place that its current location IMHO).
    >
    > What advantage does that have? I think I prefer the old code.

    I don't know what Jon had in mind, but we do avoid a call through a
    function pointer this way. I agree with Jon that it also makes more
    sense - gart code can just call the gart code directly, without going
    through the dma_xxx wrapper that ends up calling it anyway.

    Cheers,
    Muli
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    Muli Ben-Yehuda
    http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/

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