[PATCH] PCI: layerscape: Add 'dma-coherent' property
Shawn Guo
shawnguo at kernel.org
Wed Jun 15 17:43:41 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>
Applied both, thanks.
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