Subject: Re: Tekram DC395/DC315 SCSI Adapter driver update
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Rui-Xiang Guo <rxg@ms25.url.com.tw>
List: current-users
Date: 09/16/2001 21:52:57
> 1) The PCI vendor ID and device ID are defined in sys/dev/pcidevs.h,
>    so we should use them rather than define locally.

Finished.

> 2) The driver now uses bus_space(9) properly, so it seems
>    IOPortBase member of struct ACB is no longer needed.

Removed.

> 3) All SRBs are allocated by bus_dmamem_alloc(), but
>    it is better to use bus_dmamem_alloc() only for memory
>    used to pass parameters to the adapter via DMA,
>    i.e. only memory for SegmentX[] member should be
>    allocated by bus_dmamem_alloc(). (see sys/dev/ic/iha*.[ch])

Can we just split the member from strcut _SRB?

>    Otherwise it causes some performance penalty because
>    allocated memory by bus_dmamem_alloc() with BUS_DMA_COHERENT
>    does not use cache on some architectures (like arm and mips).

It seems to other drivers also do this. :)

> 4) bus_dmamap_sync with BUS_DMASYNC_PREWRITE is also needed
>    for SegmentX[] before transfer.

Please tell me more about this, thanks.

> 5) It seems SRBSGPhyAddr member of struct SRB is not needed.
>    It is refered only in trm_DataIO_transfer().

Removed.

> 6) Maybe some byteswap code is required for big-endian machines.
>    (But it should be trivial.)

Maybe. :)

> 7) It is much better to adapt these sources to KNF :-)
>    (see /usr/share/misc/style)

Need more time to do this. X-)

Thanks for your reply and suggestions!