DW DMA IP-core provides a way to synthesize the DMA controller with
channels having different parameters like maximum burst-length,
multi-block support, maximum data width, etc. Those parameters both
explicitly and implicitly affect the channels performance. Since DMA slave
devices might be very demanding to the DMA performance, let's provide a
functionality for the slaves to be assigned with DW DMA channels, which
performance according to the platform engineer fulfill their requirements.
After this patch is applied it can be done by passing the mask of suitable
DMA-channels either directly in the dw_dma_slave structure instance or as
a fifth cell of the DMA DT-property. If mask is zero or not provided, then
there is no limitation on the channels allocation.
For instance Baikal-T1 SoC is equipped with a DW DMAC engine, which first
two channels are synthesized with max burst length of 16, while the rest
of the channels have been created with max-burst-len=4. It would seem that
the first two channels must be faster than the others and should be more
preferable for the time-critical DMA slave devices. In practice it turned
out that the situation is quite the opposite. The channels with
max-burst-len=4 demonstrated a better performance than the channels with
max-burst-len=16 even when they both had been initialized with the same
settings. The performance drop of the first two DMA-channels made them
unsuitable for the DW APB SSI slave device. No matter what settings they
are configured with, full-duplex SPI transfers occasionally experience the
Rx FIFO overflow. It means that the DMA-engine doesn't keep up with
incoming data pace even though the SPI-bus is enabled with speed of 25MHz
while the DW DMA controller is clocked with 50MHz signal. There is no such
problem has been noticed for the channels synthesized with
max-burst-len=4.
Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200731200826.9292-6-Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
IP core of the DW DMA controller may be synthesized with different
max burst length of the transfers per each channel. According to Synopsis
having the fixed maximum burst transactions length may provide some
performance gain. At the same time setting up the source and destination
multi size exceeding the max burst length limitation may cause a serious
problems. In our case the DMA transaction just hangs up. In order to fix
this lets introduce the max burst length platform config of the DW DMA
controller device and don't let the DMA channels configuration code
exceed the burst length hardware limitation.
Note the maximum burst length parameter can be detected either in runtime
from the DWC parameter registers or from the dedicated DT property.
Depending on the IP core configuration the maximum value can vary from
channel to channel so by overriding the channel slave max_burst capability
we make sure a DMA consumer will get the channel-specific max burst
length.
Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200723005848.31907-10-Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
Serge Semin