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    firewire: ohci: Asynchronous Reception rewrite · 7a39d8b8
    Clemens Ladisch authored
    
    
    Move the AR DMA descriptors out of the buffer pages, and map the buffer
    pages linearly into the kernel's address space.  This allows the driver
    to ignore any page boundaries in the DMA data and thus to avoid any
    copying around of packet payloads.
    
    This fixes the bug where S800 packets that are so big (> 4080 bytes)
    that they can be split over three pages were not handled correctly.
    
    Due to the changed algorithm, we can now use arbitrarily many buffer
    pages, which improves performance because the controller can more easily
    unload its DMA FIFO.
    
    Furthermore, using streaming DMA mappings should improve perfomance on
    architectures where coherent DMA mappings are not cacheable.  Even on
    other architectures, the caching behaviour should be improved slightly
    because the CPU no longer writes to the buffer pages.
    
    v2: Detect the last filled buffer page by searching the descriptor's
        residual count value fields in order (like in the old code), instead
        of going backwards through the transfer status fields; it looks as
        if some controllers do not set the latter correctly.
    
    v3: Fix an old resume bug that would now make the handler run into
        a BUG_ON, and replace that check with more useful error handling.
        Increase the buffer size for better performance with non-TI chips.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarClemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
    
    Maxim Levitsky writes:
        Works almost perfectly.  I can still see RCODE_BUSY errors
        sometimes, not very often though.  64K here eliminates these errors
        completely.  This is most likely due to nouveau drivers and lowest
        perf level I use to lower card temperature.  That increases
        latencies too much I think.  Besides that the IO is just perfect.
    
    Tested-by: default avatarMaxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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