On Thu, 2016-05-12 at 18:06 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 18:17 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > This is combined series of two things: > > - split out the Intel LPSS specific driver from 8250_pci into > > 8250_lpss > > - enable DMA support on Intel Quark UART > > > > The patch has been tested on few Intel SoCs / platforms. In any > > case I > > would > > like to ask Bryan to do independent test. Andy. It looks as though there's a performance drop when enabling the DMA here (v) stock PIO mode with the 8250 driver. Test setup Galileo Gen1 transmitter - Galileo Gen2 receiver. TX/RX cross-wired between the Arduino UART headers respectively (pins 0 & 1 on the "Digital PWM" header), GND pin14 similarly cross-wired. User-space: Receiver: Stock on-flash yocto-tiny kernel 3.8.7 Transmitter: Galileo Debian image : https://sourceforge.net/projects/galileodebian/ 3.8.7 kernel: On SPI-flash BSP kernel andy-v4: From your tree d13ffcf ('serial: 8250: attempt to keep Kconfig and Makefile in order') tip-of-tree : 97f0090 ('Merge tag 'rproc-v4.7' of git://github.com/andersson/remoteproc') Results: ### Test0 ### galileo dma andy-v4 9600 8n1 root@galileo:~# time echo "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789" > /dev/ttyS0 real 0m0.060s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s galileo non-dma Linux 3.8.7 9600 8n1: 9600 8n1 root@galileo:~# time echo "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789" > /dev/ttyS0 real 0m0.051s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s galileo non-dma tip-of-tree 9600 8n1: root@galileo:~# time echo "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789" > /dev/ttyS0 real 0m0.048s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s ### Test1 ### galileo dma andy-v4 9600 8n1: root@galileo:~# time echo "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz01234567 89abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456 789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789" > /dev/ttyS0 real 0m0.209s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s galileo non-dma Linux 3.8.7 9600 8n1: root@galileo:~# time echo "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz01234567 89abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456 789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789" > /dev/ttyS0 real 0m0.206s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s galileo non-dma tip-of-tree 9600 8n1: root@galileo:~# time echo "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz01234567 89abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456 789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789" > /dev/ttyS0 real 0m0.199s user 0m0.010s sys 0m0.000s --- bod -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dmaengine" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html