Re: [PATCH 1/3] dmaengine: Add multi-buffer support in single DMA transfer

Sumit Kumar <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:58:50 +0530
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On 3/17/2026 4:24 PM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On 13-03-26, 12:19, Sumit Kumar wrote:
>> Add dmaengine_prep_batch_sg API for batching multiple independent buffers
>> in a single DMA transaction. Each scatter-gather entry specifies both
>> source and destination addresses. This allows multiple non-contiguous
> Looks like you want to bring back dmaengine_prep_dma_sg() see commit c678fa66341c
I was not aware about this commit, I will bring back this change (only 
the core dma part).
Along with my changes was are integrated with the above commit.
>> memory regions to be transferred in a single DMA transaction instead of
>> separate operations, significantly reducing submission overhead and
>> interrupt overhead.
>>
>> Extends struct scatterlist with optional dma_dst_address field
>> and implements support in dw-edma driver.
> If this is memcpy why are you talking about dma_dst_address which is a
> slave field?
As we are going back with the commit c678fa66341c we can ignore the 
current patch.

- Sumit