From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: hongbo.zhang@freescale.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, scottwood@freescale.com,
dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DMA: Freescale: change BWC from 256 bytes to 1024 bytes
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:13:49 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140120074349.GH26823@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389852653-8806-1-git-send-email-hongbo.zhang@freescale.com>
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 02:10:53PM +0800, hongbo.zhang@freescale.com wrote:
> From: Hongbo Zhang <hongbo.zhang@freescale.com>
>
> Freescale DMA has a feature of BandWidth Control (ab. BWC), which is currently
> 256 bytes and should be changed to 1024 bytes for best DMA throughput.
> Changing BWC from 256 to 1024 will improve DMA performance much, in cases
> whatever one channel is running or multi channels are running simultanously,
> large or small buffers are copied. And this change doesn't impact memory
> access performance remarkably, lmbench tests show that for some cases the
> memory performance are decreased very slightly, while the others are even
> better.
> Tested on T4240.
Applied, thanks
--
~Vinod
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2014-01-16 6:10 [PATCH] DMA: Freescale: change BWC from 256 bytes to 1024 bytes hongbo.zhang
2014-01-20 7:43 ` Vinod Koul [this message]
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