The axiethernet driver can use the dmaengine framework to communicate with the xilinx DMAengine driver(AXIDMA, MCDMA). The inspiration behind this dmaengine adoption is to reuse the in-kernel xilinx dma engine driver[1] and remove redundant dma programming sequence[2] from the ethernet driver. This simplifies the ethernet driver and also makes it generic to be hooked to any complaint dma IP i.e AXIDMA, MCDMA without any modification. The dmaengine framework was extended for metadata API support during the axidma RFC[3] discussion. However, it still needs further enhancements to make it well suited for ethernet usecases. Backward compatibility support: To support backward compatibility, we are planning to use below approach, 1) Use "dmas" property as an optional for now to differentiate dmaengine based ethernet Driver or built-in dma ethernet driver. Will move this property to required property some time later. 2) after some time, will introduce a new compatible string to support the dmaengine method, This new compatible name will use different APIs for init and data transfer. Comments, suggestions, thoughts to implement remaining functional features are very welcome! [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c [2]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c#L238 [3]: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1804.0/00367.html Changes in V3: 1) Moved RFC to PATCH. 2) Removed ethtool get/set coalesce, will be added later. 3) Added backward comapatible support. 4) Split the dmaengine support patch of V2 into two patches(2/3 and 3/3). https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220920055703.13246-4-sarath.babu.naidu.gaddam@xxxxxxx/ Changes in V2: 1) Add ethtool get/set coalesce and DMA reset using DMAengine framework. 2) Add performance numbers. 3) Remove .txt and change the name of file to xlnx,axiethernet.yaml. 4) Fix DT check warning(Fix DT check warning('device_type' does not match any of the regexes:'pinctrl-[0-9]+' From schema: Documentation/ devicetree/bindings/net/xilinx_axienet.yaml). Radhey Shyam Pandey (1): dt-bindings: net: xilinx_axienet: Introduce dmaengine binding support Sarath Babu Naidu Gaddam (2): net: axienet: Preparatory changes for dmaengine support net: axienet: Introduce dmaengine support .../bindings/net/xlnx,axi-ethernet.yaml | 12 + drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet.h | 8 + .../net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c | 636 ++++++++++++++---- 3 files changed, 533 insertions(+), 123 deletions(-) -- 2.25.1
