RE: [PATCH v2] davinci: MMC: Pass number of SG segments as platform data

2010-03-17 Thread Sudhakar Rajashekhara
Hi,

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 03:10:37, Andrew Morton wrote:
 On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:04:09 +0530
 Sudhakar Rajashekhara sudhakar@ti.com wrote:
 
  On some platforms like DM355, the number of EDMA parameter
  slots available for EDMA_SLOT_ANY usage are few. In such cases,
  if MMC/SD uses 16 slots for each instance of MMC controller,
  then the number of slots available for other modules will be
  very few.
  
  By passing the number of EDMA slots to be used in MMC driver
  from platform data, EDMA slots available for other purposes
  can be controlled.
 
 It's unclear what the runtime effects of this change are.  I assumed
 (without justification) that they're minor and I scheduled the patch for
 2.6.35.
 
 If that was the wrong decision then blame the changelog ;)
 

Most of the platforms will not use this platform data variable. But on DM355,
as the number of EDMA resources available is limited, the number of scatter-
gather segments used inside the MMC driver can be 8 (passed as platform data)
instead of 16. On DM355, when the number of scatter-gather segments was reduced
to 8, I saw a performance difference of about 0.25-0.4 Mbytes/sec during write.
Read performance variations were negligible.

Thanks,
Sudhakar



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Re: [PATCH v2] davinci: MMC: Pass number of SG segments as platform data

2010-03-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:04:09 +0530
Sudhakar Rajashekhara sudhakar@ti.com wrote:

 On some platforms like DM355, the number of EDMA parameter
 slots available for EDMA_SLOT_ANY usage are few. In such cases,
 if MMC/SD uses 16 slots for each instance of MMC controller,
 then the number of slots available for other modules will be
 very few.
 
 By passing the number of EDMA slots to be used in MMC driver
 from platform data, EDMA slots available for other purposes
 can be controlled.

It's unclear what the runtime effects of this change are.  I assumed
(without justification) that they're minor and I scheduled the patch for
2.6.35.

If that was the wrong decision then blame the changelog ;)
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[PATCH v2] davinci: MMC: Pass number of SG segments as platform data

2010-03-12 Thread Sudhakar Rajashekhara
On some platforms like DM355, the number of EDMA parameter
slots available for EDMA_SLOT_ANY usage are few. In such cases,
if MMC/SD uses 16 slots for each instance of MMC controller,
then the number of slots available for other modules will be
very few.

By passing the number of EDMA slots to be used in MMC driver
from platform data, EDMA slots available for other purposes
can be controlled.

Signed-off-by: Sudhakar Rajashekhara sudhakar@ti.com
---
Following are the modifications from the previous version:
1. Changed the type of nr_sg variable to u8 from u32.
2. 'if (pdata-nr_sg)' check was introduced before initializing
   host-nr_sg.

 arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/mmc.h |3 +++
 drivers/mmc/host/davinci_mmc.c   |   24 +---
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/mmc.h 
b/arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/mmc.h
index 5a85e24..d4f1e96 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/mmc.h
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/mmc.h
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ struct davinci_mmc_config {
 
/* Version of the MMC/SD controller */
u8  version;
+
+   /* Number of sg segments */
+   u8  nr_sg;
 };
 void davinci_setup_mmc(int module, struct davinci_mmc_config *config);
 
diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/davinci_mmc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/davinci_mmc.c
index 3bd0ba2..547d29c 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/host/davinci_mmc.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/host/davinci_mmc.c
@@ -137,15 +137,15 @@
 
 /*
  * One scatterlist dma segment is at most MAX_CCNT rw_threshold units,
- * and we handle up to NR_SG segments.  MMC_BLOCK_BOUNCE kicks in only
+ * and we handle up to MAX_NR_SG segments.  MMC_BLOCK_BOUNCE kicks in only
  * for drivers with max_hw_segs == 1, making the segments bigger (64KB)
- * than the page or two that's otherwise typical.  NR_SG == 16 gives at
- * least the same throughput boost, using EDMA transfer linkage instead
- * of spending CPU time copying pages.
+ * than the page or two that's otherwise typical. nr_sg (passed from
+ * platform data) == 16 gives at least the same throughput boost, using
+ * EDMA transfer linkage instead of spending CPU time copying pages.
  */
 #define MAX_CCNT   ((1  16) - 1)
 
-#define NR_SG  16
+#define MAX_NR_SG  16
 
 static unsigned rw_threshold = 32;
 module_param(rw_threshold, uint, S_IRUGO);
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ struct mmc_davinci_host {
struct edmacc_param tx_template;
struct edmacc_param rx_template;
unsignedn_link;
-   u32 links[NR_SG - 1];
+   u32 links[MAX_NR_SG - 1];
 
/* For PIO we walk scatterlists one segment at a time. */
unsigned intsg_len;
@@ -202,6 +202,8 @@ struct mmc_davinci_host {
u8 version;
/* for ns in one cycle calculation */
unsigned ns_in_one_cycle;
+   /* Number of sg segments */
+   u8 nr_sg;
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ
struct notifier_block   freq_transition;
 #endif
@@ -568,6 +570,7 @@ davinci_release_dma_channels(struct mmc_davinci_host *host)
 
 static int __init davinci_acquire_dma_channels(struct mmc_davinci_host *host)
 {
+   u32 link_size;
int r, i;
 
/* Acquire master DMA write channel */
@@ -593,7 +596,8 @@ static int __init davinci_acquire_dma_channels(struct 
mmc_davinci_host *host)
/* Allocate parameter RAM slots, which will later be bound to a
 * channel as needed to handle a scatterlist.
 */
-   for (i = 0; i  ARRAY_SIZE(host-links); i++) {
+   link_size = min_t(unsigned, host-nr_sg, ARRAY_SIZE(host-links));
+   for (i = 0; i  link_size; i++) {
r = edma_alloc_slot(EDMA_CTLR(host-txdma), EDMA_SLOT_ANY);
if (r  0) {
dev_dbg(mmc_dev(host-mmc), dma PaRAM alloc -- %d\n,
@@ -1202,6 +1206,12 @@ static int __init davinci_mmcsd_probe(struct 
platform_device *pdev)
 
init_mmcsd_host(host);
 
+   if (pdata-nr_sg)
+   host-nr_sg = pdata-nr_sg - 1;
+
+   if (host-nr_sg  MAX_NR_SG || !host-nr_sg)
+   host-nr_sg = MAX_NR_SG;
+
host-use_dma = use_dma;
host-irq = irq;
 
-- 
1.5.6

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