From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: vinod.koul@intel.com (Vinod Koul) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 08:57:55 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] dmaengine: edma: Use early completion for intermediate paRAM set in slave_sg In-Reply-To: <20160607081944.21447-1-peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> References: <20160607081944.21447-1-peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> Message-ID: <20160608032755.GN16910@localhost> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 11:19:44AM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote: > The driver limits the physical number of paRAM slots to be used by channels. > If the transfer needs more slots (more SGs) then the transfer is broken up > to smaller chunks. When the chunk is finished the driver will rewrite the > physical slots and continues the transfer. This set up time can take some > time and we might miss DMA events. If the intermediate set completion is > using early completion (the interrupt will happen when the last slot is > issued to the TPTC and not when the transfer is finished by the TPTC) we > will have a bit more time to update the paRAM slots and less likely to have > missed events. Applied, thanks -- ~Vinod