[EXTERNAL] Re: [v11 0/4] PCI Dev and SG copy support

[Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan]

Hi Thomas and Fengchengwen,

> 
> 13/03/2024 09:22, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan:
> > Hi Fengchengwen
> >
> > > Hi Gowrishankar,
> > >
> > > On 2024/3/12 20:24, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan wrote:
> > > > Hi Fengchengwen
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> Hi Thomas,
> > > >>
> > > >> On 2024/3/12 17:15, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > >>> 07/03/2024 14:55, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan:
> > > >>>> Hi Fengchengwen,
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>>> Waiting for a confirmation that this series is good to go.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> In the discuss of thread [1], I hope this patchset continue
> > > >>>>> take a step forward (means new version) to support
> > > >>>>> bi-direction test just by
> > > >> modify config.ini file.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> This patch set already exposes all configuration via
> > > >>>> config.ini. I didn't follow
> > > >> what is missing. For bi-direction, we can better continue
> > > >> discussing on that patch.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Chengwen, please can you confirm whether you require a new
> version?
> > > >>> Which change exactly is missing?
> > > >>
> > > >> This patchset is OK with one sub-test only tackle one DMA direction.
> > > >>
> > > > Thanks for the confirmation.
> > > >
> > > >> But there is a later patch [1] which will support multiple DMA
> > > >> directions within one sub-test.
> > > >> it will add a entry "xfer_mode", but I think it complicate the
> > > >> test, I prefer we do more in this patchset to support some like
> > > >> bi-direction just by modify config.ini, some like this:
> > > >>
> > > > I think we should discuss about that in bi-directional patch
> > > > series. This series
> > > is self-contained and there is no need to add bi-directional as part
> > > of this series. As far as this patch set is concerned, all the
> > > options are exposed via config.ini. Can you comment if there is
> > > anything missing, assuming that we are taking bi-directional support as a
> separate feature addition.
> > >
> > > I have identified some improvements to the dma-perf app, and I plan
> > > to do it
> >
> > It is unclear at this point what is the issue that you have with the app or this
> patch set. This series was first submitted on Aug 10 2023. You had acked v8 on
> Jan 25 2024. After the patches were acked, there were still review comments
> on variable renames etc, which were all addressed. The patches had been
> under review for more than 8 months with very slow progress.
> >
> > > in 24.07, so if you don't mind, I will incorporate your commits
> > > (keeping your
> > > signed-off-by) and modify to the one that I described above, and
> > > then send to community (also with my improvements commits).
> >
> > I would like to have this series merged first and not pulled into another
> series. We do have few other features that we would like to add on top. I
> would assume that you can also add your changes on top. To make
> contribution easier, isn't it better to accept at least this patch set (as you acked
> earlier) and then you can continue working on the improvements?
> 
> OK, one feature at a time.
> Let's work on top of this patchset applied.
> 

Thank you both for reviewing this series and accepting it in RC3.

Regards,
Gowrishankar