On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 18:05 -0500, Joel Fernandes wrote:

The following series adds support to EDMA driver to enable DMA of
scatter-gather lists of arbitrary length, but still make use of only
a certain MAX number of slots at a time for a given channel. Thus
free-ing up the rest of the slots to other slaves/channels.  With this
there is no need for slave drivers to query the EDMA driver about how
much is the MAX it can send at a time as done in [1]. Drivers can send
SG lists of any number of entries to DMA. Reference discussion at [2].

With this, all the patches for MMC and EDMA related to "sg limits" can be
dropped.

Tested omap-aes and omap_hsmmc drivers with different MAX number of slots,
even just 1. In the case where it is 1, only 1-slot is used to DMA an
entire scatter list of arbitrary length.
Since this series touches EDMA private API code also shared with davinci-pcm,
playback of a 16-bit 44.1KHz audio file with davinci-pcm has been tested.

Sample test run with 1 vs 16 (MAX number of slots/SG) in omap-aes driver:
MAX slots = 1:
 (128 bit key, 8192 byte blocks): 1266 operations in 1 seconds (10371072 bytes)
MAX slots = 16:
 (128 bit key, 8192 byte blocks): 1601 operations in 1 seconds (13115392 bytes)

Note: For the above test, 8K buffer is mapped into SG list of size 2 so
only 2 slots are required. So beyond size 2, there will not be any noticeable
performance improvement. But above experiment just shows as proof of concept
that even using 1 slot is managed by just DMA'ing 1 SG entry at a time.

much better series, thanks

I think i am okay with this, if anyone has objections pls speak up. Also
I need ack on the ARM patch 3/6 before I can carry this.

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Vinod Koul
Intel Corp.