Using DMA

[Bill Gatliff]

Bruce_Leonard at selinc.com wrote:
> Bill Gatliff <bgat at billgatliff.com> wrote on 11/06/2008 10:36:58 AM:
> 
>> Scott Wood wrote:
>>> Bruce_Leonard at selinc.com wrote:
>>>> In the Cafe driver, Linux Device Drivers 3rd Edition, and
>>>> DMA-mapping.txt everyone talks about how to allocate buffers using
>>>> dma/pci_alloc_coherent(), but no one talks about how to actually use
>>>> it. I'm pretty sure (even in my ignorance) that just allocating a DMA
>>>> coherent buffer and then copying in and out of it does NOT actually
>>>> engage the underlying hardware and perform a DMA transfer.
>> Does the "adma" stuff address this any?
>>
> 
> What is "adma"?
> 
> Bruce
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Asynchronous DMA.  See this paper, for example:

http://www.power.org/devcon/07/Session_Downloads/PADC07_Aytac_Haluk_09_13_07_layout_FINAL.pdf

It looks like the structure of interest is async_tx_submit.  Beyond
that, I can't offer much because I haven't used it.


b.g.
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