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From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: Appana Durga Kedareswara Rao <appana.durga.rao@xilinx.com>
Cc: "mark.rutland@arm.com" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Check for channel idle state before submitting dma descriptor
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:59:39 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170113052939.GP3573@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C246CAC1457055469EF09E3A7AC4E11A4A666658@XAP-PVEXMBX01.xlnx.xilinx.com>

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 04:28:11AM +0000, Appana Durga Kedareswara Rao wrote:
> Hi Vinod,
> 
> 	Thanks for the review...
> > 
> > On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 12:15:28PM +0530, Kedareswara rao Appana wrote:
> > > Add channel idle state to ensure that dma descriptor is not
> > > submitted when VDMA engine is in progress.
> > 
> > any reason why you want to make your own varible and not use the HW to
> > query
> > as done earlier. It is not clear to me why that is removed from description
> 
> We need to poll for a bit in the status register to know the dma state.
> We are currently doing that in the driver hot path
> To avoid this using own variables.

It would be worthwhile to document these, down the line people may not
remeber the motivation


-- 
~Vinod

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-13  5:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-07  6:45 [PATCH v5 0/3] dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Bug fixes Kedareswara rao Appana
     [not found] ` <1483771530-8545-1-git-send-email-appanad-gjFFaj9aHVfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-07  6:45   ` [PATCH v5 1/3] dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Check for channel idle state before submitting dma descriptor Kedareswara rao Appana
2017-01-10  6:23     ` Vinod Koul
2017-01-13  4:28       ` Appana Durga Kedareswara Rao
2017-01-13  5:29         ` Vinod Koul [this message]
2017-01-13  5:32           ` Appana Durga Kedareswara Rao
2017-01-07  6:45   ` [PATCH v5 2/3] dmaeninge: xilinx_dma: Fix bug in multiple frame stores scenario in vdma Kedareswara rao Appana
2017-01-10  5:35     ` Rob Herring
     [not found]     ` <1483771530-8545-3-git-send-email-appanad-gjFFaj9aHVfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-10  6:26       ` Vinod Koul
2017-01-12 14:19         ` Appana Durga Kedareswara Rao
2017-01-07  6:45   ` [PATCH v5 3/3] dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Fix race condition in the driver for multiple descriptor scenario Kedareswara rao Appana
2017-01-10  8:49     ` Vinod Koul
2017-01-12 14:19       ` Appana Durga Kedareswara Rao
2017-01-13  5:36         ` Vinod Koul
2017-01-13  6:00           ` Appana Durga Kedareswara Rao
2017-01-13  6:22             ` Vinod Koul
2017-01-13  6:33               ` Appana Durga Kedareswara Rao

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