Re: [PATCH v1 12/12] serial: 8250_lpss: enable DMA on Intel Quark UART

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

On Mon, 2016-04-11 at 18:51 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Bryan O'Donoghue
> <pure.logic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-04-07 at 23:37 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > 
> > Preface. I tried this on Galileo and it appears to work. I'll do
> > some
> > throughput testing to verify but, initially the results are
> > positive :)
> 
> I submitted (and pushed into my branch) a bit changed version (see my
> v2).
> 
> > > +       lpss->dma_maxburst = 8;
> > 
> > Are these dwords ? If those are bytes then the maxburst value looks
> > small. In the BSP the max burst is 32 bytes.
> 
> max_burst is in items of given size (here is 32 bytes for memory and 
> 8

I haven't read your V2 yet but on this, I'd suggest raising the burst
size to 32 bytes for UART (no higher) we found during bringup that
larger sizes "fall-over and die" but, anything up to 32 bytes is OK -
and therefore you should be able to reduce the number of
bursts/interrupts etc.

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