Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:22:46 -0700 | From | David Hawkins <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fsldma: use PCI Read Multiple command |
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Hi Timur,
>> Would you like some sort of summary of this info for a commit >> message? > > That's probably overkill. I just want a sentence or two that tells > someone looking at the code casually that the behavior of reading PCI > memory might be different than what they expect.
Could you help us with the wording you'd like to see in the code. Did you want to see something in the header comments, or something near the register settings?
How about something like this in place of the existing PCI_RM comment:
PRC_RM - PCI read multiple The default PCI read command used by the DMA controller is PCI Read (PCI command 6h). When the burst length is 32-bytes or longer, PCI Read Line (PCI command Eh) is used (undocumented feature of the controller). Using PCI read multiple (PCI command Ch) results in high-performance across PCI bridges. DMA transfers to non-prefetchable PCI registers should not result in prefetched reads, even when using the PCI read multiple command.
Cheers, Dave
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