From: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
To: Akhil R <akhilrajeev@nvidia.com>,
	"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	"dmaengine@vger.kernel.org" <dmaengine@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
	Krishna Yarlagadda <kyarlagadda@nvidia.com>,
	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org>,
	"p.zabel@pengutronix.de" <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>,
	Rajesh Gumasta <rgumasta@nvidia.com>,
	"robh+dt@kernel.org" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	"thierry.reding@gmail.com" <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
	"vkoul@kernel.org" <vkoul@kernel.org>
Cc: Pavan Kunapuli <pkunapuli@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 2/4] dmaengine: tegra: Add tegra gpcdma driver
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 15:28:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6d6ded6-5317-8aec-9021-461c7dfc5b4f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07913f0e-1e17-a22b-615c-fff8ccad7f9b@gmail.com>
04.02.2022 15:15, Dmitry Osipenko пишет:
> 04.02.2022 09:47, Akhil R пишет:
>>> 03.02.2022 06:44, Akhil R пишет:
>>>>> But why do you need to pause at all here and can't use
>>>>> tegra_dma_stop_client() even if pause is supported?
>>>> The recommended method to terminate a transfer in
>>>> between is to pause the channel first and then disable it.
>>>> This is more graceful and stable for the hardware.
>>>> stop_client() is more abrupt, though it does the job.
>>>
>>> If there is no real practical difference, then I'd use the common method
>>> only. This will make code cleaner and simpler a tad.
>> This is the documented way of clean exit from a transfer, especially for
>> cyclic transfers where the DMA is configured in continuous mode.
>> I guess it might not be a good idea to deviate from that unless there is
>> something demanding it compulsorily.
>>
>> I agree that the code will be cleaner. I would try to see if I can find a cleaner
>> way to do this. Please do let me know if you have any suggestion.
> 
> Will be great if you could find out and provide a detailed explanation
> about the exact differences of the methods from software perspective.
> Try to ask the hardware people.
> 
> If you won't be able to find out, then use both methods. Then you could
> specify the "pause" callback within the tegra_dma_chip_data
> [tdma->chip_data->pause(tdma)], instead of using condition in the code.
s/pause/terminate/
next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2022-02-04 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-01 15:26 [PATCH v18 0/4] Add NVIDIA Tegra GPC-DMA driver Akhil R
2022-02-01 15:26 ` [PATCH v18 1/4] dt-bindings: dmaengine: Add doc for tegra gpcdma Akhil R
2022-02-01 15:26 ` [PATCH v18 2/4] dmaengine: tegra: Add tegra gpcdma driver Akhil R
2022-02-02 15:45   ` Dmitry Osipenko
2022-02-03  3:44     ` Akhil R
2022-02-03 18:22       ` Dmitry Osipenko
2022-02-04  6:47         ` Akhil R
2022-02-04 12:15           ` Dmitry Osipenko
2022-02-04 12:28             ` Dmitry Osipenko [this message]
2022-02-01 15:26 ` [PATCH v18 3/4] arm64: defconfig: tegra: Enable GPCDMA Akhil R
2022-02-01 15:26 ` [PATCH v18 4/4] arm64: tegra: Add GPCDMA node for tegra186 and tegra194 Akhil R
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