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Back in 2011, Russell pointed out that the "async_tx channel switch" capability was violating expectations of the dma mapping api [1]. At the time the existing uses were reviewed as still usable, but that longer term we needed a rework of the raid offload implementation. While some of the framework for a fixed implementation was introduced in 2012 [2], the wider rewrite never materialized. There continues to be interest in raid offload with new dma/raid engine drivers being submitted. Those drivers must not build on top of the broken channel switching capability. Prevent async_tx from using an offload engine if the channel switching capability is enabled. This still allows the engine to be used for other purposes, but the broken way async_tx uses these engines for raid will be disabled. For configurations where this causes a performance regression the only solution is to start the work of eliminating the async_tx api and moving channel management into the raid code directly where it can manage marshalling an operation stream between multiple dma channels. [1]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2011-January/036753.html [2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/6/71 Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> Cc: Anup Patel <anup.patel@broadcom.com> Cc: Rameshwar Prasad Sahu <rsahu@apm.com> Cc: Saeed Bishara <saeed.bishara@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Reported-by: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
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