From: sshtylyov@mvista•com (Sergei Shtylyov)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ep93xx: Implement double buffering for M2M DMA channels
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:14:12 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F6B25A4.4090006@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F6AF845.9070209@metasoft.pl>
Hello.
On 22-03-2012 14:00, Rafal Prylowski wrote:
>> I haven't looked through the patch yet, since I'm waiting on more
>> information from Mika and Hartley's testing.
>> However, the commit log doesn't tell me why we want this change. Is it a
>> performance improvement? If so, do you have some numbers that we can
>> paste into the commit log?
> In principle, using double buffering should be faster than using only
> one buffer and disabling/enabling channel each time. But my measurements
> doesn't show any significant change.
> The real reason for this change is that current code is not 100% reliable
> in IDE-DMA (I'm planning to submit ep93xx ide driver to linux-ide soon).
IDE or libata driver? Asking because IDE drivers are not accepted anymore.
WBR, Sergei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-22 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-20 8:09 [PATCH] ep93xx: Implement double buffering for M2M DMA channels Rafal Prylowski
2012-03-21 7:07 ` Mika Westerberg
2012-03-21 7:47 ` Rafal Prylowski
2012-03-21 19:33 ` Mika Westerberg
2012-03-21 17:12 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-03-21 19:32 ` Mika Westerberg
2012-03-22 0:47 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-03-22 7:37 ` Mika Westerberg
2012-03-22 18:52 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-03-22 20:03 ` Mika Westerberg
2012-03-22 21:36 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-03-22 23:56 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-03-23 7:00 ` Mika Westerberg
2012-03-22 10:16 ` Rafal Prylowski
2012-03-21 19:38 ` Mika Westerberg
2012-03-23 2:19 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-03-23 7:04 ` Mika Westerberg
2012-03-23 16:09 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-03-24 7:32 ` Mika Westerberg
2012-03-26 6:44 ` Rafal Prylowski
2012-03-29 22:33 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-04-01 18:49 ` Mika Westerberg
2012-04-10 17:28 ` Mika Westerberg
2012-04-10 17:55 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-04-11 7:18 ` Rafal Prylowski
2012-04-16 18:59 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-04-17 7:15 ` Rafal Prylowski
2012-04-17 15:46 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-04-17 20:51 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-04-18 16:41 ` Rafal Prylowski
2012-04-18 17:01 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-03-22 0:57 ` Ryan Mallon
2012-03-22 10:00 ` Rafal Prylowski
2012-03-22 13:14 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2012-03-22 14:13 ` Rafal Prylowski
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