[PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net: airoha: Add the capability to allocate hw buffers in SRAM

Lorenzo Bianconi lorenzo at kernel.org
Fri May 9 07:51:34 PDT 2025


In order to improve packet processing and packet forwarding
performances, EN7581 SoC supports allocating buffers for hw forwarding
queues in SRAM instead of DRAM if available on the system.
Rely on SRAM for buffers allocation if available on the system and use
DRAM as fallback.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo at kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c
index 16c7896f931fd9532aa3b8cc78f41afc676aa117..b11c25442eb8c8c2b5aa45ded7a9d61e24aa2e4a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
  */
 #include <linux/of.h>
 #include <linux/of_net.h>
+#include <linux/of_reserved_mem.h>
 #include <linux/platform_device.h>
 #include <linux/tcp.h>
 #include <linux/u64_stats_sync.h>
@@ -1076,9 +1077,11 @@ static void airoha_qdma_cleanup_tx_queue(struct airoha_queue *q)
 static int airoha_qdma_init_hfwd_queues(struct airoha_qdma *qdma)
 {
 	struct airoha_eth *eth = qdma->eth;
+	int id = qdma - &eth->qdma[0];
 	dma_addr_t dma_addr;
-	u32 status;
-	int size;
+	const char *name;
+	int size, index;
+	u32 status, val;
 
 	size = HW_DSCP_NUM * sizeof(struct airoha_qdma_fwd_desc);
 	qdma->hfwd.desc = dmam_alloc_coherent(eth->dev, size, &dma_addr,
@@ -1088,12 +1091,45 @@ static int airoha_qdma_init_hfwd_queues(struct airoha_qdma *qdma)
 
 	airoha_qdma_wr(qdma, REG_FWD_DSCP_BASE, dma_addr);
 
-	size = AIROHA_MAX_PACKET_SIZE * HW_DSCP_NUM;
-	qdma->hfwd.q = dmam_alloc_coherent(eth->dev, size, &dma_addr,
-					   GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!qdma->hfwd.q)
+	name = devm_kasprintf(eth->dev, GFP_KERNEL, "qdma%d-buf", id);
+	if (!name)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	index = of_property_match_string(eth->dev->of_node,
+					 "memory-region-names", name);
+	if (index >= 0) { /* buffers in sram */
+		struct reserved_mem *rmem;
+		struct device_node *np;
+		void *q;
+
+		np = of_parse_phandle(eth->dev->of_node, "memory-region",
+				      index);
+		if (!np)
+			return -ENODEV;
+
+		rmem = of_reserved_mem_lookup(np);
+		of_node_put(np);
+
+		/* SRAM is actual memory and supports transparent access just
+		 * like DRAM. Hence we don't require __iomem being set and
+		 * we don't need to use accessor routines to read from or write
+		 * to SRAM.
+		 */
+		q = (void __force *)devm_ioremap(eth->dev, rmem->base,
+						 rmem->size);
+		if (!q)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+
+		qdma->hfwd.q = q;
+		dma_addr = rmem->base;
+	} else {
+		size = AIROHA_MAX_PACKET_SIZE * HW_DSCP_NUM;
+		qdma->hfwd.q = dmam_alloc_coherent(eth->dev, size, &dma_addr,
+						   GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!qdma->hfwd.q)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+
 	airoha_qdma_wr(qdma, REG_FWD_BUF_BASE, dma_addr);
 
 	airoha_qdma_rmw(qdma, REG_HW_FWD_DSCP_CFG,
@@ -1101,11 +1137,14 @@ static int airoha_qdma_init_hfwd_queues(struct airoha_qdma *qdma)
 			FIELD_PREP(HW_FWD_DSCP_PAYLOAD_SIZE_MASK, 0));
 	airoha_qdma_rmw(qdma, REG_FWD_DSCP_LOW_THR, FWD_DSCP_LOW_THR_MASK,
 			FIELD_PREP(FWD_DSCP_LOW_THR_MASK, 128));
+
+	val = FIELD_PREP(HW_FWD_DESC_NUM_MASK, HW_DSCP_NUM) |
+	      LMGR_INIT_START;
+	if (index >= 0)
+		val |= LMGR_SRAM_MODE_MASK;
 	airoha_qdma_rmw(qdma, REG_LMGR_INIT_CFG,
 			LMGR_INIT_START | LMGR_SRAM_MODE_MASK |
-			HW_FWD_DESC_NUM_MASK,
-			FIELD_PREP(HW_FWD_DESC_NUM_MASK, HW_DSCP_NUM) |
-			LMGR_INIT_START);
+			HW_FWD_DESC_NUM_MASK, val);
 
 	return read_poll_timeout(airoha_qdma_rr, status,
 				 !(status & LMGR_INIT_START), USEC_PER_MSEC,

-- 
2.49.0




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