Re: [PATCH 02/13] dmaengine: edma: Optimize memcpy operation

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Wed Oct 14 2015 - 10:38:06 EST


On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 04:12:13PM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> @@ -1320,41 +1317,92 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *edma_prep_dma_memcpy(
> struct dma_chan *chan, dma_addr_t dest, dma_addr_t src,
> size_t len, unsigned long tx_flags)
> {
> - int ret;
> + int ret, nslots;
> struct edma_desc *edesc;
> struct device *dev = chan->device->dev;
> struct edma_chan *echan = to_edma_chan(chan);
> - unsigned int width;
> + unsigned int width, pset_len;
>
> if (unlikely(!echan || !len))
> return NULL;
>
> - edesc = kzalloc(sizeof(*edesc) + sizeof(edesc->pset[0]), GFP_ATOMIC);
> + if (len < SZ_64K) {
> + /*
> + * Transfer size less than 64K can be handled with one paRAM
> + * slot. ACNT = length
> + */
> + width = len;
> + pset_len = len;
> + nslots = 1;
> + } else {
> + /*
> + * Transfer size bigger than 64K will be handled with maximum of
> + * two paRAM slots.
> + * slot1: ACNT = 32767, length1: (length / 32767)
> + * slot2: the remaining amount of data.
> + */
> + width = SZ_32K - 1;
> + pset_len = rounddown(len, width);
> + /* One slot is enough for lengths multiple of (SZ_32K -1) */

Hmm so does this mean if I have 140K transfer, it will do two 64K for 1st
slot and 12K in second slot ?

Is there a limit on 'blocks' of 64K we can do here?

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~Vinod
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