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From: tony@atomide•com (Tony Lindgren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC v2] dmaengine: omap-dma: Start DMA without delay for cyclic channels
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 10:15:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130408171519.GP10155@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130408170956.GX30923@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

* Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm•linux.org.uk> [130408 10:15]:
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 09:11:04AM +0200, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> > Russell,
> > 
> > On 04/03/2013 01:17 PM, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> > > cyclic DMA is only used by audio which needs DMA to be started without a
> > > delay.
> > > If the DMA for audio is started using the tasklet we experience random
> > > channel switch (to be more precise: channel shift).
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw•net>
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti•com>
> > > ---
> > > Hi Russell,
> > > 
> > > Instead of removing the tasklet we can identify the DMA channel used by audio
> > > based on the cyclic flag of the channel.
> > > I think this can be used as a short term solution to fix the audio channel shift
> > > issue and later when we have the dynamic DMA channel allocation we can adjust
> > > the code.
> > 
> > Could you, please look at this patch?
> 
> Now that I'm back from a short 4 day break, then yes, and the answer is
> that it's fine.  Who's handling the patch?

I suggest Peter resend the patch with also Grant + Linus W cc:d so
they can queue it unless there are other related patches pending
somewhere else.

Regards,

Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-08 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-03 11:17 [RFC v2] dmaengine: omap-dma: Start DMA without delay for cyclic channels Peter Ujfalusi
2013-04-03 11:24 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-04-03 11:52   ` Peter Ujfalusi
2013-04-03 12:00     ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-04-08  7:11 ` Peter Ujfalusi
2013-04-08 17:09   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-04-08 17:15     ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2013-04-09  6:52       ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-04-09  7:19         ` Peter Ujfalusi
2013-04-09  7:26           ` Vinod Koul
2013-04-09 10:20             ` Peter Ujfalusi
2013-04-09  7:19     ` Peter Ujfalusi
2013-04-09  7:21       ` Peter Ujfalusi
2013-04-09 13:54         ` Russell King - ARM Linux

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