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Adding Kumar to the CC: list, since he might pick up the patch.

Ira Snyder wrote:

> From 73e42fa58c93de8d4d429ba8e069b60c42037b58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:17:54 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] fsldma: use PCI Read Multiple command
> 
> By default, the Freescale 83xx DMA controller uses the PCI Read Line
> command when reading data over the PCI bus. Setting the controller to use
> the PCI Read Multiple command instead allows the controller to read much
> larger bursts of data, which provides a drastic speed increase.
> 
> The slowdown due to using PCI Read Line was only observed when a PCI-to-PCI
> bridge was between the devices trying to communicate.
> 
> A simple test driver showed an increase from 4MB/sec to 116MB/sec when
> performing DMA over the PCI bus. Using DMA to transfer between blocks of
> local SDRAM showed no change in performance with this patch. The dmatest
> driver was also used to verify the correctness of the transfers, and showed
> no errors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>

Acked-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale