Re: Tearing down DMA transfer setup after DMA client has finished

[Mason]

On 25/11/2016 12:57, Måns Rullgård wrote:

> The same DMA unit is also used for SATA, which is an off the shelf
> Designware controller with an in-kernel driver.  This interrupt timing
> glitch can actually explain some intermittent errors I've observed with
> it.

FWIW, newer chips embed an AHCI controller, with a dedicated
memory channel.

FWIW2, the HW dev said memory channels are "almost free", and he
would have no problem giving each device their own private channel
read/write pair.

Regards.