Re: [PATCH V9 3/5] i2c: tegra: Add DMA support

[Thierry Reding]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 09:07:45AM -0800, Sowjanya Komatineni wrote:
> This patch adds DMA support for Tegra I2C.
> 
> Tegra I2C TX and RX FIFO depth is 8 words. PIO mode is used for
> transfer size of the max FIFO depth and DMA mode is used for
> transfer size higher than max FIFO depth to save CPU overhead.
> 
> PIO mode needs full intervention of CPU to fill or empty FIFO's
> and also need to service multiple data requests interrupt for the
> same transaction. This adds delay between data bytes of the same
> transfer when CPU is fully loaded and some slave devices has
> internal timeout for no bus activity and stops transaction to
> avoid bus hang. DMA mode is helpful in such cases.
> 
> DMA mode is also helpful for Large transfers during downloading or
> uploading FW over I2C to some external devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sowjanya Komatineni <skomatineni@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  [V9] : Rebased to 5.0-rc4
> 	Removed dependency of APB DMA in Kconfig and added conditional check
> 	in I2C driver to decide on using DMA mode.
> 	Changed back the allocation of dma buffer during i2c probe.
> 	Fixed FIFO triggers depending on DMA Vs PIO.
>  [V8] : Moved back dma init to i2c probe, removed ALL_PACKETS_XFER_COMPLETE
> 	interrupt and using PACKETS_XFER_COMPLETE interrupt only and some
> 	other fixes
> 	Updated Kconfig for APB_DMA dependency
>  [V7] : Same as V6
>  [V6] : Updated for proper buffer allocation/freeing, channel release.
> 	Updated to use exact xfer size for syncing dma buffer.
>  [V5] : Same as V4
>  [V4] : Updated to allocate DMA buffer only when DMA mode.
> 	Updated to fall back to PIO mode when DMA channel request or
> 	buffer allocation fails.
>  [V3] : Updated without additional buffer allocation.
>  [V2] : Updated based on V1 review feedback along with code cleanup for
> 	proper implementation of DMA.
> 
>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c | 368 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 335 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

With Dmitry's concern addressed:

Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>

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