[PATCH] PCI: layerscape: Add 'dma-coherent' property

Liu Gang Gang.Liu at nxp.com
Mon Jun 6 23:55:45 PDT 2016


Add 'dma-coherent' description for PCI nodes.

The 'dma-coherent' indicates that the hardware IP block can ensure
the coherency of the data transferred from/to the IP block. This
can avoid the software cache flush/invalid actions, and improve
the performance significantly.

The PCI IP block of ls1043a has this capability, so adding
this feature to improve the PCI performance.

Signed-off-by: Liu Gang <Gang.Liu at nxp.com>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/layerscape-pci.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/layerscape-pci.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/layerscape-pci.txt
index ef683b2..41e9f55 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/layerscape-pci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/layerscape-pci.txt
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ Required properties:
   The first entry must be a link to the SCFG device node
   The second entry must be '0' or '1' based on physical PCIe controller index.
   This is used to get SCFG PEXN registers
+- dma-coherent: Indicates that the hardware IP block can ensure the coherency
+  of the data transferred from/to the IP block. This can avoid the software
+  cache flush/invalid actions, and improve the performance significantly.
 
 Example:
 
@@ -38,6 +41,7 @@ Example:
 		#address-cells = <3>;
 		#size-cells = <2>;
 		device_type = "pci";
+		dma-coherent;
 		num-lanes = <4>;
 		bus-range = <0x0 0xff>;
 		ranges = <0x81000000 0x0 0x00000000 0x40 0x00010000 0x0 0x00010000   /* downstream I/O */
-- 
2.1.0.27.g96db324




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