linux-kernel - Re: dmaengine.c: question about device_alloc_chan

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Date:	Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:00:58 +0200
From:	Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@...el.com>
To:	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
Cc:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dmaengine.c: question about device_alloc_chan_resources

Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com> wrote:
> Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> 
> > I guess so. What would be even more simple is to simply prevent other
> > clients from taking a channel once someone has acked it, which would be
> > perfect for my purposes, but perhaps not everyone else's...  
> 
> I'm not clear on how your driver works, but doesn't it run continuous tests on
> all channels all the time?  If so, wouldn't your proposal prevent other drivers
> from ever getting a DMA channel?

You can explicitly tell it which channel(s) to use. If you run it on
all channels, it will already prevent any dmaslave clients from ever
getting a channel.

dmatest is meant for testing only, and has a major impact on system
performance when it's running, so it's IMO not a very interesting use
case.

Haavard
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