From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
To: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
Tudor Ambarus <Tudor.Ambarus@microchip.com>,
Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: rawnand: sunxi: Add DMA support for sun8i
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:14:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190415091420.3fb86ef7@collabora.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190415085859.21f69396@xps13>
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:58:59 +0200
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote:
> Hi Boris,
>
> Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com> wrote on Sun, 14 Apr
> 2019 11:05:49 +0200:
>
> > On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 18:21:10 +0200
> > Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Allwinner NAND controllers can make use of DMA to enhance the I/O
> > > throughput thanks to ECC pipelining. DMA handling with sun8i NAND IP
> > > is a bit different than with the older SoCs, hence the introduction of
> > > a new compatible to handle:
> > > * the differences between register offsets,
> > > * the burst length change from 4 to minimum 8,
> > > * drive SRAM accesses through the AHB bus instead of the MBUS.
> >
> > Hm, now that you know MBUS accesses are working fine (IIRC, that's what
> > you used for the SPL DMA-based implementation), why not directly use
> > MBUS accesses on A33? I mean, it's likely faster than going through
> > the DMA engine (which is shared by several IPs), and AFAIR, the MBUS
> > setup is pretty simple.
>
> Because all the driver is already in shape to use the external DMA
> engine and it was very easy and quick (have a look at the diff of the
> v3) to use it again.
Yes, I see that. I might be wrong but I'd expect the MDMA version to be
just as simple as this one.
>
> However, the choice I am describing here is not DMA vs. MBUS (or MDMA),
> it is MBUS vs. AHB, it is just about the bus that will access the SRAM
> (this is what we have understood with Maxime from the datasheets and
> the tests we have done).
Yes, sorry, I meant MDMA vs shared DMA engine, but I guess MBUS is only
used through MDMA accesses anyway, right?
> For this choice, we tested with both buses: no
> throughput change so we think that it is not a bottleneck anyway.
Well, you'd need to test with a lot of traffic going through the DMA
engine to check if that makes a difference.
Anyway, it was just a suggestion, keep it like that if you think using
MDMA is not worthwhile.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-04 16:21 [PATCH 0/3] Sun8i NAND DMA support Miquel Raynal
2019-04-04 16:21 ` [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: mtd: sunxi: Add new compatible Miquel Raynal
2019-04-05 9:13 ` Maxime Ripard
2019-04-05 9:28 ` Miquel Raynal
2019-04-05 9:56 ` Maxime Ripard
2019-04-04 16:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] mtd: rawnand: sunxi: Add DMA support for sun8i Miquel Raynal
2019-04-05 9:16 ` Maxime Ripard
2019-04-05 9:37 ` Miquel Raynal
2019-04-05 10:55 ` Maxime Ripard
2019-04-05 12:25 ` Miquel Raynal
2019-04-05 12:47 ` Maxime Ripard
2019-04-14 9:05 ` Boris Brezillon
2019-04-15 6:58 ` Miquel Raynal
2019-04-15 7:14 ` Boris Brezillon [this message]
2019-04-16 16:53 ` Miquel Raynal
2019-04-04 16:21 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: dts: sunxi: Improve sun8i NAND transfers by using DMA Miquel Raynal
2019-04-05 9:18 ` Maxime Ripard
2019-04-05 9:38 ` Miquel Raynal
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