Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: stmmac: Introducing support for Page Pool

[Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>]

On 23/07/2019 11:49, Jose Abreu wrote:
> From: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
> Date: Jul/23/2019, 11:38:33 (UTC+00:00)
> 
>>
>> On 23/07/2019 11:07, Jose Abreu wrote:
>>> From: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
>>> Date: Jul/23/2019, 11:01:24 (UTC+00:00)
>>>
>>>> This appears to be a winner and by disabling the SMMU for the ethernet
>>>> controller and reverting commit 954a03be033c7cef80ddc232e7cbdb17df735663
>>>> this worked! So yes appears to be related to the SMMU being enabled. We
>>>> had to enable the SMMU for ethernet recently due to commit
>>>> 954a03be033c7cef80ddc232e7cbdb17df735663.
>>>
>>> Finally :)
>>>
>>> However, from "git show 954a03be033c7cef80ddc232e7cbdb17df735663":
>>>
>>> +         There are few reasons to allow unmatched stream bypass, and
>>> +         even fewer good ones.  If saying YES here breaks your board
>>> +         you should work on fixing your board.
>>>
>>> So, how can we fix this ? Is your ethernet DT node marked as 
>>> "dma-coherent;" ?
>>
>> TBH I have no idea. I can't say I fully understand your change or how it
>> is breaking things for us.
>>
>> Currently, the Tegra DT binding does not have 'dma-coherent' set. I see
>> this is optional, but I am not sure how you determine whether or not
>> this should be set.
> 
> From my understanding it means that your device / IP DMA accesses are coherent regarding the CPU point of view. I think it will be the case if GMAC is not behind any kind of IOMMU in the HW arch.

I understand what coherency is, I just don't know how you tell if this
implementation of the ethernet controller is coherent or not.

Jon

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