Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] dma: tegra: finer granularity residual for tx_status

[Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>]

On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 03:37:45PM -0700, Christopher Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 09:37:25AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > On 05/06/2014 03:22 PM, Christopher Freeman wrote:
> > > Get word-level granularity from hardware for calculating
> > > the transfer count remaining.
> > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c b/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
> > 
> > > +static int tegra_dma_wcount_in_bytes(struct dma_chan *dc)
> > 
> > A lot of the code in this function is identical to the code in
> > tegra_dma_terminate_all() which does the same thing. Can this be pulled
> > out into a shared utility function?
> > 
> I'll look at making utility functions for ISR handling and the calculations for the byte counts.
> 
> > > +	tegra_dma_pause(tdc, true);
> > 
> > Is this continual pausing/resuming of the DMA operation going to
> > negatively affect performance?
> > 
> I tried testing the performance impact and each call took about 20 uS.  And of
> course, the client would have to be calling this constantly.
But why do we need to pause, cant we read the status form HW and report..?

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~Vinod