Re: [PATCH v2] dw_dmac: allocate dma descriptors from DMA_COHERENTmemory

[Vinod Koul]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 03:48:50PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Currently descriptors are allocated from normal cacheable memory and that slows
> down filling the descriptors, as we need to call cache_coherency routines
> afterwards. It would be better to allocate memory for these descriptors from
> DMA_COHERENT memory. This would make code much cleaner too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Applied Thanks

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