linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 3/3] i2c: tegra: Add DMA Support

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Message-ID: <5973707c-555f-a27c-2ff3-e867d4b2cde7@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 27 Jan 2019 00:24:36 +0300
From:   Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
To:     Sowjanya Komatineni <skomatineni@...dia.com>,
        thierry.reding@...il.com, jonathanh@...dia.com,
        mkarthik@...dia.com, smohammed@...dia.com, talho@...dia.com
Cc:     linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 3/3] i2c: tegra: Add DMA Support

26.01.2019 6:57, Sowjanya Komatineni пишет:
> This patch adds DMA support for Tegra I2C.
> 
> Tegra I2C TX and RX FIFO depth is 8 words. PIO mode is used for
> transfer size of the max FIFO depth and DMA mode is used for
> transfer size higher than max FIFO depth to save CPU overhead.
> 
> PIO mode needs full intervention of CPU to fill or empty FIFO's
> and also need to service multiple data requests interrupt for the
> same transaction adding overhead on CPU for large transfers.
> 
> DMA mode is helpful for Large transfers during downloading or
> uploading FW over I2C to some external devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sowjanya Komatineni <skomatineni@...dia.com>
> 
> ---

Seems there are good news, APB DMA could access IRAM. Quote from TRM: "The source may be DRAM or IRAM, and the destination location could be devices placed on APB Bus; or vice versa". Hence it shall be much more efficient to use IRAM for the DMA buffer, please consider that variant.