Re: [PATCH] firewire: Enable physical DMA above 4GB

[Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>]

On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 19:56 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> On Mar 26 Peter Hurley wrote:
> > Quadlet reads to memory above 4GB is painfully slow when serviced
> > by the AR DMA context. In addition, the CPU(s) may be locked-up,
> > preventing any transfer at all.
> > 
> > Write the PhyUpperBound register with the end-of-memory value. If
> > end-of-memory is beyond the OHCI limit of 0x0000ffff00000000,
> > clamp to that value.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/firewire/ohci.c | 6 +++++-
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/firewire/ohci.c b/drivers/firewire/ohci.c
> > index 044ace3..b4135a5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/firewire/ohci.c
> > +++ b/drivers/firewire/ohci.c
> > @@ -2249,6 +2249,7 @@ static int ohci_enable(struct fw_card *card,
> >  	struct pci_dev *dev = to_pci_dev(card->device);
> >  	u32 lps, version, irqs;
> >  	int i, ret;
> > +	u32 phys_upper;
> >  
> >  	if (software_reset(ohci)) {
> >  		dev_err(card->device, "failed to reset ohci card\n");
> > @@ -2323,7 +2324,10 @@ static int ohci_enable(struct fw_card *card,
> >  	reg_write(ohci, OHCI1394_FairnessControl, 0);
> >  	card->priority_budget_implemented = ohci->pri_req_max != 0;
> >  
> > -	reg_write(ohci, OHCI1394_PhyUpperBound, 0x00010000);
> > +	phys_upper = min(0xffff0000ULL,
> > +			 (dma_get_required_mask(card->device) >> 16) + 1);
> > +	reg_write(ohci, OHCI1394_PhyUpperBound, max(phys_upper, 0x00010000U));
> > +
> >  	reg_write(ohci, OHCI1394_IntEventClear, ~0);
> >  	reg_write(ohci, OHCI1394_IntMaskClear, ~0);
> >  
> 
> What Clemens said.

That's what I'm testing right now for v2 -- a fixed phys-AR boundary of
0x800000000000ULL.

> Also:  By far most OHCI-1394 chips do not implement PhyUpperBound,
> i.e. ignore any writes to PhyUpperBound, return 0 when PhyUpperBound is
> read, and keep the boundary between physical response and AR response at
> 4 GB, as described in the spec.
> 
> It has been a long time though since I last checked whether PhyUpperBound
> is implemented; maybe it has become more widespread than it was back then.
> 
> Or maybe it hasn't:  All OHCI-1394 chips that ever came to market are 32
> bit chips anyway.  So the few rare ones that do support PhyUpperBound
> larger than 4 GB cannot in fact use it.
> 
> Or am I severely behind the times about this?

The FW643e-2 is natively PCIe (not behind a bridge) and supports phys
DMA past 4GB (the datasheet says all 48 bits but I can only test it out
to 10GB).

I thought the FW643e was as well? You'll have to test that out :)

Regards,
Peter Hurley