Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished
Måns Rullgård
mans at mansr.com
Fri Nov 25 06:42:17 PST 2016
Mason <slash.tmp at free.fr> writes:
> On 25/11/2016 15:12, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>
>> Mason writes:
>>
>>> On 25/11/2016 12:57, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>>>
>>>> The same DMA unit is also used for SATA, which is an off the shelf
>>>> Designware controller with an in-kernel driver. This interrupt timing
>>>> glitch can actually explain some intermittent errors I've observed with
>>>> it.
>>>
>>> FWIW, newer chips embed an AHCI controller, with a dedicated
>>> memory channel.
>>>
>>> FWIW2, the HW dev said memory channels are "almost free", and he
>>> would have no problem giving each device their own private channel
>>> read/write pair.
>>
>> We still need to deal with the existing hardware.
>
> Can you confirm that your MBUS driver, in its current form,
> does not support memcpy-type transfers, which generate two
> IRQs (one from send agent, one from receive agent)?
It does not.
> Do you plan to support that, or is it just too quirky?
I hadn't planned on doing that, but I'm ruling it out entirely.
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