Re: Patch to parameterize DMA_MIN_BYTES for omap2-mcspi

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On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 03:10:04PM +0200, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> On 03/19/2015 08:51 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > You probably need both - there's often a hard limit where the FIFO size
> > in the hardware becomes a limit for DMA as well as a soft limit on top
> > of that for performance reasons.

> The FIFO is only going to be enabled when the DMA is used for transfer so we
> should have some lower limit for the PIO/DMA threshold. The FIFO in McSPI is a

Right, that's pretty much what I'm trying to say.

> tricky one anyways, since it has only one FIFO but several channels and the
> FIFO can be enabled for only one channel, if it is enabled for more channels
> it is not going to be used by either channel.

Not sure I follow this - how does this whole multiple channels thing
work for SPI exactly?

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