bcm2708_fb: DMA acceleration for fb_copyarea
Based on http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=62425#p62425 Also used Simon's dmaer_master module as a reference for tweaking DMA settings for better performance. For now busylooping only. IRQ support might be added later. With non-overclocked Raspberry Pi, the performance is ~360 MB/s for simple copy or ~260 MB/s for two-pass copy (used when dragging windows to the right). In the case of using DMA channel 0, the performance improves to ~440 MB/s. For comparison, VFP optimized CPU copy can only do ~114 MB/s in the same conditions (hindered by reading uncached source buffer). Signed-off-by:Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com> bcm2708_fb: report number of dma copies Add a counter (exported via debugfs) reporting the number of dma copies that the framebuffer driver has done, in order to help evaluate different optimization strategies. Signed-off-by:
Luke Diamand <luked@broadcom.com> bcm2708_fb: use IRQ for DMA copies The copyarea ioctl() uses DMA to speed things along. This was busy-waiting for completion. This change supports using an interrupt instead for larger transfers. For small transfers, busy-waiting is still likely to be faster. Signed-off-by:
Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
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