From: "Jernej Škrabec" <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>
To: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@kernel.org>,
Jernej Skrabec <jernej@kernel.org>,
Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>,
Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@kernel.org>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>,
dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: sun6i: Choose appropriate burst length under maxburst
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:57:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3385264.aeNJFYEL58@jernej-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251221080450.1813479-1-wens@kernel.org>
Dne nedelja, 21. december 2025 ob 09:04:48 Srednjeevropski standardni čas je Chen-Yu Tsai napisal(a):
> maxburst, as provided by the client, specifies the largest amount of
> data that is allowed to be transferred in one burst. This limit is
> normally provided to avoid a data burst overflowing the target FIFO.
> It does not mean that the DMA engine can only do bursts in that size.
>
> Let the driver pick the largest supported burst length within the
> given limit. This lets the driver work correctly with some clients that
> give a large maxburst value. In particular, the 8250_dw driver will give
> a quarter of the UART's FIFO size as maxburst. On some systems the FIFO
> size is 256 bytes, giving a maxburst of 64 bytes, while the hardware
> only supports bursts of up to 16 bytes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>
Best regards,
Jernej
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-21 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-21 8:04 [PATCH] dmaengine: sun6i: Choose appropriate burst length under maxburst Chen-Yu Tsai
2025-12-21 15:57 ` Jernej Škrabec [this message]
2025-12-23 11:28 ` Vinod Koul
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