Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished

Vinod Koul vinod.koul at intel.com
Thu Dec 8 02:37:30 PST 2016


On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 04:44:55PM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> What you're proposing, Vinod, is to make a channel exclusive
> >> to a driver, as long as the driver has not explicitly released
> >> the channel, via dma_release_channel(), right?
> >
> > Precisely, but yes the downside of that is concurrent access are
> > limited, but am not sure if driver implements virtual channels and
> > allows that..
> 
> My driver implements virtual channels.  The problem is that the physical
> dma channels signal completion slightly too soon, at least with
> mem-to-device transfers.  Apparently we need to keep the sbox routing
> until the peripheral indicates that it has actually received all the
> data.

So do we need concurrent accesses by all clients.

-- 
~Vinod



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