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authorAlexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>2014-08-08 14:22:12 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-08 15:57:24 -0700
commit50835e977b69c3278bd5e4264737138346df133f (patch)
treeda891568dd1e4c7f9dae7e440d1ea2a6726aab93 /Documentation
parent4aff1ce7add1c432fe5ea3ae0231155f33e5ef38 (diff)
rapidio/tsi721_dma: rework scatter-gather list handling
Rework Tsi721 RapidIO DMA engine support to allow handling data scatter/gather lists longer than number of hardware buffer descriptors in the DMA channel's descriptor list. The current implementation of Tsi721 DMA transfers requires that number of entries in a scatter/gather list provided by a caller of dmaengine_prep_rio_sg() should not exceed number of allocated hardware buffer descriptors. This patch removes the limitation by processing long scatter/gather lists by sections that can be transferred using hardware descriptor ring of configured size. It also introduces a module parameter "dma_desc_per_channel" to allow run-time configuration of Tsi721 hardware buffer descriptor rings. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Andre van Herk <andre.van.herk@prodrive-technologies.com> Cc: Stef van Os <stef.van.os@prodrive-technologies.com> Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rapidio/tsi721.txt19
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/rapidio/tsi721.txt b/Documentation/rapidio/tsi721.txt
index 335f3c6087dc..626052f403bb 100644
--- a/Documentation/rapidio/tsi721.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rapidio/tsi721.txt
@@ -20,13 +20,26 @@ II. Known problems
None.
-III. To do
+III. DMA Engine Support
- Add DMA data transfers (non-messaging).
- Add inbound region (SRIO-to-PCIe) mapping.
+Tsi721 mport driver supports DMA data transfers between local system memory and
+remote RapidIO devices. This functionality is implemented according to SLAVE
+mode API defined by common Linux kernel DMA Engine framework.
+
+Depending on system requirements RapidIO DMA operations can be included/excluded
+by setting CONFIG_RAPIDIO_DMA_ENGINE option. Tsi721 miniport driver uses seven
+out of eight available BDMA channels to support DMA data transfers.
+One BDMA channel is reserved for generation of maintenance read/write requests.
+
+If Tsi721 mport driver have been built with RAPIDIO_DMA_ENGINE support included,
+this driver will accept DMA-specific module parameter:
+ "dma_desc_per_channel" - defines number of hardware buffer descriptors used by
+ each BDMA channel of Tsi721 (by default - 128).
IV. Version History
+ 1.1.0 - DMA operations re-worked to support data scatter/gather lists larger
+ than hardware buffer descriptors ring.
1.0.0 - Initial driver release.
V. License