linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 12/12] serial: 8250_lpss: enable DMA on Intel Quark UART

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Date:	Mon, 11 Apr 2016 18:51:12 +0300
From:	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:	"Bryan O'Donoghue" <pure.logic@...us-software.ie>
Cc:	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	dmaengine <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Puustinen, Ismo" <ismo.puustinen@...el.com>,
	Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
	"linux-serial@...r.kernel.org" <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 12/12] serial: 8250_lpss: enable DMA on Intel Quark UART

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Bryan O'Donoghue
<pure.logic@...us-software.ie> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-04-07 at 23:37 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>
> Preface. I tried this on Galileo and it appears to work. I'll do some
> throughput testing to verify but, initially the results are positive :)

I submitted (and pushed into my branch) a bit changed version (see my v2).

>> +       lpss->dma_maxburst = 8;
>
> Are these dwords ? If those are bytes then the maxburst value looks
> small. In the BSP the max burst is 32 bytes.

max_burst is in items of given size (here is 32 bytes for memory and 8
bytes for UART). I took this value from Quark BSP, but I'll be happy
to adjust to more optimal values.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko