bindings: PCI: layerscape: Add 'dma-coherent' property
authorLiu Gang <Gang.Liu@nxp.com>
Tue, 7 Jun 2016 06:55:45 +0000 (14:55 +0800)
committerShawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:42:01 +0000 (08:42 +0800)
Add 'dma-coherent' description for PCI nodes.

The 'dma-coherent' indicates that the hardware IP block can ensure
the coherency of the data transferred from/to the IP block. This
can avoid the software cache flush/invalid actions, and improve
the performance significantly.

The PCI IP block of ls1043a has this capability, so adding
this feature to improve the PCI performance.

Signed-off-by: Liu Gang <Gang.Liu@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/layerscape-pci.txt

index ef683b2..41e9f55 100644 (file)
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ Required properties:
   The first entry must be a link to the SCFG device node
   The second entry must be '0' or '1' based on physical PCIe controller index.
   This is used to get SCFG PEXN registers
+- dma-coherent: Indicates that the hardware IP block can ensure the coherency
+  of the data transferred from/to the IP block. This can avoid the software
+  cache flush/invalid actions, and improve the performance significantly.
 
 Example:
 
@@ -38,6 +41,7 @@ Example:
                #address-cells = <3>;
                #size-cells = <2>;
                device_type = "pci";
+               dma-coherent;
                num-lanes = <4>;
                bus-range = <0x0 0xff>;
                ranges = <0x81000000 0x0 0x00000000 0x40 0x00010000 0x0 0x00010000   /* downstream I/O */