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authorSerge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>2020-07-31 23:08:26 +0300
committerVinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>2020-08-17 09:28:31 +0300
commite8ee6c8cb61b676f1a2d6b942329e98224bd8ee9 (patch)
treee594083dbb9677f7103b280a49ac0684f368ced0 /include/linux/platform_data
parent8d2f59dab3cfdbb23959b03d561819e180c1bc03 (diff)
downloadlinux-e8ee6c8cb61b676f1a2d6b942329e98224bd8ee9.tar.xz
dmaengine: dw: Add DMA-channels mask cell support
DW DMA IP-core provides a way to synthesize the DMA controller with channels having different parameters like maximum burst-length, multi-block support, maximum data width, etc. Those parameters both explicitly and implicitly affect the channels performance. Since DMA slave devices might be very demanding to the DMA performance, let's provide a functionality for the slaves to be assigned with DW DMA channels, which performance according to the platform engineer fulfill their requirements. After this patch is applied it can be done by passing the mask of suitable DMA-channels either directly in the dw_dma_slave structure instance or as a fifth cell of the DMA DT-property. If mask is zero or not provided, then there is no limitation on the channels allocation. For instance Baikal-T1 SoC is equipped with a DW DMAC engine, which first two channels are synthesized with max burst length of 16, while the rest of the channels have been created with max-burst-len=4. It would seem that the first two channels must be faster than the others and should be more preferable for the time-critical DMA slave devices. In practice it turned out that the situation is quite the opposite. The channels with max-burst-len=4 demonstrated a better performance than the channels with max-burst-len=16 even when they both had been initialized with the same settings. The performance drop of the first two DMA-channels made them unsuitable for the DW APB SSI slave device. No matter what settings they are configured with, full-duplex SPI transfers occasionally experience the Rx FIFO overflow. It means that the DMA-engine doesn't keep up with incoming data pace even though the SPI-bus is enabled with speed of 25MHz while the DW DMA controller is clocked with 50MHz signal. There is no such problem has been noticed for the channels synthesized with max-burst-len=4. Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200731200826.9292-6-Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/platform_data')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/platform_data/dma-dw.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/platform_data/dma-dw.h b/include/linux/platform_data/dma-dw.h
index fbbeb2f6189b..b34a094b2258 100644
--- a/include/linux/platform_data/dma-dw.h
+++ b/include/linux/platform_data/dma-dw.h
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ struct device;
* @dst_id: dst request line
* @m_master: memory master for transfers on allocated channel
* @p_master: peripheral master for transfers on allocated channel
+ * @channels: mask of the channels permitted for allocation (zero value means any)
* @hs_polarity:set active low polarity of handshake interface
*/
struct dw_dma_slave {
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ struct dw_dma_slave {
u8 dst_id;
u8 m_master;
u8 p_master;
+ u8 channels;
bool hs_polarity;
};