[PATCH] libertas: add abilty to set DMA buffers alignmnet for SPI interface in compile time
Mike Rapoport
mike at compulab.co.il
Wed Feb 4 09:51:06 EST 2009
Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 08:17 -0800, Andrey Yurovsky wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 09:04 +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>>>> Different SPI controllers pose different alignment requirements on DMAable
>>>> buffers. It's possible to alter the SPI controller driver to use it's own
>>>> properly aligned buffers for DMA and copy the data it gets from the client
>>>> into these buffers. However, this approach also impacts overall performance.
>>>> Adding ability to set DMA buffers alignment for SPI interface in compile
>>>> time prevents unnecessary memcpy calls.
>>> I'd still rather that alignment constraints were handled in the
>>> *controller* code, where the constraint actually is. If this path is
>>> followed, then every SPI-connected device for a platform would have to
>>> have specific hacks for every platform, which is quite unmaintainable.
>>> Is there a good way to fit the alignment constraints into the SPI
>>> controller code?
I completely agree that a driver should not have platform specific hacks because
of controller limitation. However, adding Kconfig option provides working,
although far from perfect solution.
I agree that SPI controller and probably the entire SPI subsystem code should be
reworked to allow proper DMAing of different devices with different controllers.
But until it is done being able to use G-SPI 8686 on PXA seems to me worth
adding some ugly bits to libertas Kconfig. If you disagree with it I can keep
this patch on top of my private tree until SPI is reworked, or 8686 gets EOL.
>>> Dan
>> "struct spi_device" currently stores things like the IRQ number (ie:
>> "spi->irq"), how about we add an optional field to struct spi_device,
>> something like "dma_alignment" that drivers can use as a hint? On PXA
>> it would be set to 8, on Blackfin it can be left at 0 or set to 4 or
>> something.
Maybe we can have it as a libertas_spi_platform_data field? Anyway, the platform
code should be aware of controller-specific quirks.
>> In our case we have:
>> - a device that needs ALIGN(4) or a multiple of 4 to work
>> - a controller that wants ALIGN(8)
>>
>> So our if_spi_probe would then use the spi->dma_alignment field to
>> choose a sane value to use with ALIGN. This would work for run-time
>> stuff but it wouldn't help us align a static buffer correctly while
>> Mike's approach would, though we could do something fancy to align
>> that too. What do you think? Thanks,
>
> That works better for me, anyone up for making the patch? Just that
> adding a Kconfig option really seems like the wrong approach here.
I've added the 'dma_alignment' field to spi_device and tried to use its value
with ALIGN without modifying static buffer alignment.
I've tested a large file transfer with three different options: if_spi.c without
any alignment changes, my patch with Kconfig option applied, and dynamic
parameter to ALIGN. The numbers I get are 200-210 Kb/sec, 480-490 Kb/sec and
290-300 Kb/sec respectively.
I'll try to see how is it possible to properly align the static buffer. Any
ideas are welcome.
> Ideally the device driver could inform the controller of it's alignment
> requirements, and since the controller obviously knows its own alignment
> requirements, the controller code would be able to choose some
> intersection of capabilities and handle the alignment itself. We really
> shouldn't be hardcoding controller constraints into the device drivers.
>
> dan
>
>> -Andrey
>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <mike at compulab.co.il>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++
>>>> drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++-----------
>>>> 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
>>>> index fe819a7..3bbb7b2 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -157,6 +157,16 @@ config LIBERTAS_SPI
>>>> ---help---
>>>> A driver for Marvell Libertas 8686 SPI devices.
>>>>
>>>> +config LIBERTAS_SPI_DMA_ALIGN
>>>> + int "DMA buffers alignment for SPI interface"
>>>> + depends on LIBERTAS_SPI
>>>> + default 4 if !ARCH_PXA
>>>> + default 8 if ARCH_PXA
>>>> + ---help---
>>>> + Different SPI controllers pose different alignment
>>>> + requirements on DMAable buffers. Allow proper setting of
>>>> + this value in compile-time.
>>>> +
>>>> config LIBERTAS_DEBUG
>>>> bool "Enable full debugging output in the Libertas module."
>>>> depends on LIBERTAS
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c
>>>> index 07311e7..3499948 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c
>>>> @@ -33,10 +33,12 @@
>>>> #include "dev.h"
>>>> #include "if_spi.h"
>>>>
>>>> +#define DMA_ALIGN CONFIG_LIBERTAS_SPI_DMA_ALIGN
>>>> +
>>>> struct if_spi_packet {
>>>> - struct list_head list;
>>>> - u16 blen;
>>>> - u8 buffer[0] __attribute__((aligned(4)));
>>>> + struct list_head list;
>>>> + u16 blen;
>>>> + u8 buffer[0] __attribute__((aligned(DMA_ALIGN)));
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> struct if_spi_card {
>>>> @@ -73,7 +75,7 @@ struct if_spi_card {
>>>> struct semaphore spi_ready;
>>>> struct semaphore spi_thread_terminated;
>>>>
>>>> - u8 cmd_buffer[IF_SPI_CMD_BUF_SIZE];
>>>> + u8 cmd_buffer[IF_SPI_CMD_BUF_SIZE] __attribute__((aligned(DMA_ALIGN)));
>>>>
>>>> /* A buffer of incoming packets from libertas core.
>>>> * Since we can't sleep in hw_host_to_card, we have to buffer
>>>> @@ -665,10 +667,13 @@ static int if_spi_c2h_cmd(struct if_spi_card *card)
>>>> BUILD_BUG_ON(IF_SPI_CMD_BUF_SIZE < LBS_CMD_BUFFER_SIZE);
>>>> BUILD_BUG_ON(IF_SPI_CMD_BUF_SIZE < LBS_UPLD_SIZE);
>>>>
>>>> - /* It's just annoying if the buffer size isn't a multiple of 4, because
>>>> - * then we might have len < IF_SPI_CMD_BUF_SIZE but
>>>> - * ALIGN(len, 4) > IF_SPI_CMD_BUF_SIZE */
>>>> - BUILD_BUG_ON(IF_SPI_CMD_BUF_SIZE % 4 != 0);
>>>> + /*
>>>> + * It's just annoying if the buffer size isn't a multiple of
>>>> + * DMA_ALIGN, because then we might have
>>>> + * len < IF_SPI_CMD_BUF_SIZE but
>>>> + * ALIGN(len, DMA_ALIGN) > IF_SPI_CMD_BUF_SIZE
>>>> + */
>>>> + BUILD_BUG_ON(IF_SPI_CMD_BUF_SIZE % DMA_ALIGN != 0);
>>>>
>>>> lbs_deb_enter(LBS_DEB_SPI);
>>>>
>>>> @@ -691,7 +696,7 @@ static int if_spi_c2h_cmd(struct if_spi_card *card)
>>>>
>>>> /* Read the data from the WLAN module into our command buffer */
>>>> err = spu_read(card, IF_SPI_CMD_RDWRPORT_REG,
>>>> - card->cmd_buffer, ALIGN(len, 4));
>>>> + card->cmd_buffer, ALIGN(len, DMA_ALIGN));
>>>> if (err)
>>>> goto out;
>>>>
>>>> @@ -747,7 +752,7 @@ static int if_spi_c2h_data(struct if_spi_card *card)
>>>> data = skb_put(skb, len);
>>>>
>>>> /* Read the data from the WLAN module into our skb... */
>>>> - err = spu_read(card, IF_SPI_DATA_RDWRPORT_REG, data, ALIGN(len, 4));
>>>> + err = spu_read(card, IF_SPI_DATA_RDWRPORT_REG, data, ALIGN(len, DMA_ALIGN));
>>>> if (err)
>>>> goto free_skb;
>>>>
>>>> @@ -940,7 +945,7 @@ static int if_spi_host_to_card(struct lbs_private *priv,
>>>> err = -EINVAL;
>>>> goto out;
>>>> }
>>>> - blen = ALIGN(nb, 4);
>>>> + blen = ALIGN(nb, DMA_ALIGN);
>>>> packet = kzalloc(sizeof(struct if_spi_packet) + blen, GFP_ATOMIC);
>>>> if (!packet) {
>>>> err = -ENOMEM;
>>>> --
>>>> 1.5.6.4
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Sincerely yours,
>>>> Mike.
>>>>
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Sincerely yours,
Mike.
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