[PATCH 0/3] Support SDMA mode on RPI4 target - 32bit

Matthias Brugger matthias.bgg at gmail.com
Thu Jan 30 12:27:38 CET 2020



On 30/01/2020 12:24, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> 
> 
> On 23/01/2020 00:15, Jaehoon Chung wrote:
>> RPI4's SDHCI controller is supported SDMA mode. (Checked on kernel side)
>> But It doesn't use on u-boot side. Then it's too slow about read/write performance.
>> This patchset is supported SDMA mode on RPI4 target(32bit).
>> - I didn't test on RPI4 64bit.
> 
> I tested it on RPi4 64bit:
> diff --git a/configs/rpi_4_defconfig b/configs/rpi_4_defconfig
> index 17ecad3aa5..6f5a2dd6e8 100644
> --- a/configs/rpi_4_defconfig
> +++ b/configs/rpi_4_defconfig
> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ CONFIG_DFU_MMC=y
>  CONFIG_DM_KEYBOARD=y
>  CONFIG_DM_MMC=y
>  CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI=y
> +CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_SDMA=y
>  CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_BCM2835=y
>  CONFIG_DM_ETH=y
>  CONFIG_BCMGENET=y
> 
> Changed the debug to a printf and gave it a try:
> U-Boot 2020.04-rc1-00010-ga963cbc9e0-dirty (Jan 30 2020 - 12:18:02 +0100)
> 
> DRAM:  1.9 GiB
> RPI 4 Model B (0xb03111)
> MMC:   sdhci_setup_cfg: Your controller doesn't support SDMA!!
> emmc2 at 7e340000: 0, mmcnr at 7e300000: 1
> 
> That's at least surprising. Any idea why it should be supported on 32 bit but
> not on 64 bit?
> Or did you add DTS properties to enable SDMA?

Ok, never mind. I realized that this is the other controller used for Wifi,
sorry for the noise!

Regards,
Matthias

> 
> Regards,
> Matthias
> 
>>
>> Read/write time about 8MB file
>> Before
>> - Read : 1.472 seconds
>> - Write : 4.690 seconds
>> After
>> - Read : 0.359 seconds
>> - Write : 0.574 seconds
>>
>> This patch is based on my RFC's patches.
>>
>> Jaehoon Chung (3):
>>   mmc: sdhci: use phys2bus macro when dma address is accessed
>>   mmc: sdhci: not return error when SDMA is not supported
>>   configs: rpi_4_32b_defconfig: enable SDHCI_SDMA config
>>
>>  configs/rpi_4_32b_defconfig |  1 +
>>  drivers/mmc/sdhci.c         | 16 +++++++++-------
>>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>


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