[PATCH] PCI: layerscape: Add 'dma-coherent' property
Rob Herring
robh at kernel.org
Wed Jun 8 12:54:43 PDT 2016
On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 02:55:45PM +0800, Liu Gang wrote:
> 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(+)
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
>
> 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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