Re: [PATCH] dma: sun4i: expose block size and wait cycle configuration to DMA users

[Maxime Ripard]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 04:08:57PM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> Hi Vinod,
> 
> On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 20:24:29 +0530
> Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 10:59:31AM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > > +/* Dedicated DMA parameter register layout */
> > > +#define SUN4I_DDMA_PARA_DST_DATA_BLK_SIZE(n)	(((n) - 1) << 24)
> > > +#define SUN4I_DDMA_PARA_DST_WAIT_CYCLES(n)	(((n) - 1) << 16)
> > > +#define SUN4I_DDMA_PARA_SRC_DATA_BLK_SIZE(n)	(((n) - 1) << 8)
> > > +#define SUN4I_DDMA_PARA_SRC_WAIT_CYCLES(n)	(((n) - 1) << 0)
> > > +
> > > +/**
> > > + * struct sun4i_dma_chan_config - DMA channel config
> > > + *
> > > + * @para: contains information about block size and time before checking
> > > + *	  DRQ line. This is device specific and only applicable to dedicated
> > > + *	  DMA channels
> > 
> > What information, can you elobrate.. And why can't you use existing
> > dma_slave_config for this?
> 
> Block size is related to the device FIFO size. I guess it allows the
> DMA channel to launch a transfer of X bytes without having to check the
> DRQ line (the line telling the DMA engine it can transfer more data
> to/from the device). The wait cycles information is apparently related
> to the number of clks the engine should wait before polling/checking
> the DRQ line status between each block transfer. I'm not sure what it
> saves to put WAIT_CYCLES() to something != 1, but in their BSP,
> Allwinner tweak that depending on the device.
> 
> Note that I'd be happy if the above configuration could go into the
> generic dma_slave_config struct. This way we could avoid per-engine
> specific APIs.

And I'd really like to avoid that too. That will avoid to cripple the
consumer drivers that might be using any of the two.

Thanks!
Maxime

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