From: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
To: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>,
Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Subject: [PATCH RESEND 2/2] Documentation: dmaengine: document DMA_CTRL_ACK
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 23:06:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1432674394-32007-3-git-send-email-robert.jarzmik@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1432674394-32007-1-git-send-email-robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
Add documentation about acking the transfers, and their
reusability.
Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
---
Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt b/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt
index 05d2280..ca67b0f 100644
--- a/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt
+++ b/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt
@@ -345,11 +345,12 @@ where to put them)
that abstracts it away.
* DMA_CTRL_ACK
- - Undocumented feature
- - No one really has an idea of what it's about, besides being
- related to reusing the DMA transaction descriptors or having
- additional transactions added to it in the async-tx API
- - Useless in the case of the slave API
+ - If set, the transfer can be reused after being completed.
+ - There is a guarantee the transfer won't be freed until it is acked
+ by async_tx_ack().
+ - As a consequence, if a device driver wants to skip the dma_map_sg() and
+ dma_unmap_sg() in between 2 transfers, because the DMA'd data wasn't used,
+ it can resubmit the transfer right after its completion.
General Design Notes
--------------------
--
2.1.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-26 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-26 21:06 [PATCH RESEND 0/2] dmaengine: make transfers reusable Robert Jarzmik
2015-05-26 21:06 ` [PATCH RESEND 1/2] dmaengine: virt-dma: don't always free descriptor upon completion Robert Jarzmik
2015-05-26 21:06 ` Robert Jarzmik [this message]
2015-06-08 7:13 ` [PATCH RESEND 2/2] Documentation: dmaengine: document DMA_CTRL_ACK Maxime Ripard
2015-06-07 19:43 ` [PATCH RESEND 0/2] dmaengine: make transfers reusable Robert Jarzmik
2015-06-17 16:46 ` Vinod Koul
2015-06-17 21:47 ` Robert Jarzmik
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