mpc8548 does not make use of DMA when doing memory copy?

[hank peng]

2009/11/3 Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>:
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> On Nov 2, 2009, at 9:40 AM, hank peng wrote:
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>> Kernel version is 2.6.30 and I have enabled fsl DMA engine during
>> configuring kernel. After system booted, I have seen only 38 DMA
>> interrupts, and no increase later when I am doing data transfer
>> through network.
>> So I wonder if mpc8548  had made use of DMA engine when doing memcpy,
>> or maybe if there are other things I haven't noticed?
>
> The dma engine code is not normally used for normal memcpy's in the kernel.
>  There are explicit call sites that have async behavior that should use it
> (like the networking code).
>
I remember normal memory copy can also be done (chosen by user) by DMA
engine on IOP80331(Intel embedded cpu, xscale arch), so why ppc
platform didn't make use of DMA doing memory copy, I think it can
increase performance, please correct me if I am wrong!

> - k
>



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