DMA Engines

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60 Minute Session
Scheduled: Thursday, November 3, 2016 from 9:30 – 10:30am in Coronado

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DMA Engines

Abstract

DMA Engines topics to be discussed:

- Reuse dma transactions:
Discuss the ability to reuse transactions to avoid constant reallocation of dma_async_tx_descriptor instances

- Error reporting
Use of the new shiny error reporting through dmaengine_result.

- Moving more code to framework
Discuss pinpoint for users and find out ways to remove them

Key Attendees: Dan Williams, Dave Jiang, Laurent Pinchart, Lars-Peter Clausen, Andy Shevchenko, Christopher Covington

Speaker

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    Theodore Ts'o

    Google

    Biography

    Theodore Ts’o is the first North American Linux Kernel Developer, and started working with Linux in September, 1991. He previously served as CTO for the Linux Foundation, and is currently employed at Google. Theodore is a Debian Developer, and is the maintainer of the ext4 file system in the Linux kernel. He is the maintainer and original author of the e2fsprogs userspace utilities for the ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems.