On 12-02-25, 17:35, Jyothi Kumar Seerapu wrote: > GSI hardware generates an interrupt for each transfer completion. > For multiple messages within a single transfer, this results in > N interrupts for N messages, leading to significant software > interrupt latency. > > To mitigate this latency, utilize Block Event Interrupt (BEI) mechanism. > Enabling BEI instructs the GSI hardware to prevent interrupt generation > and BEI is disabled when an interrupt is necessary. > > When using BEI, consider splitting a single multi-message transfer into > chunks of 8 messages internally and so interrupts are not expected for > the first 7 message completions, only the last message triggers > an interrupt, indicating the completion of 8 messages. > > This BEI mechanism enhances overall transfer efficiency. That sounds good but I dont like the idea that we add a custom interface for this. Please use DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT instead. Adding this flag should trigger N interrupts, absence of this should lead to Block events only -- ~Vinod
