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

[Måns Rullgård]

Mason <slash.tmp@xxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

We still need to deal with the existing hardware.

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