Re: [PATCH RFC] media: em28xx: don't use coherent buffer for DMA transfers

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On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:42 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> While coherent memory is cheap on x86, it has problems on
> arm. So, stop using it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> I wrote this patch in order to check if this would make things better
> for ISOCH transfers on Raspberry Pi3. It didn't. Yet, keep using
> coherent memory at USB drivers seem an overkill.
>
> So, I'm actually not sure if we should either go ahead and merge it
> or not.
>
> Comments? Tests?

For what it's worth, while I haven't tested this patch you're
proposing, I've been running what is essentially the same change in a
private tree for several years in order for the device to work better
with several TI Davinci SOC platforms.

Devin

-- 
Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs
http://www.kernellabs.com



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