dmaengine: PL08x: start next descriptor from irq context

Rather than waiting for the tasklet to run, we can start the next
descriptor from interrupt context, as soon as we know that the
previous descriptor has completed.

Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c b/drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c
index b6132845e65c9bc059ed5b1f814d37dd32ea96c1..30b6921f094f5995d73fab31595a4df8ec0f99d8 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c
@@ -1671,10 +1671,7 @@ static void pl08x_tasklet(unsigned long data)
        spin_lock_irqsave(&plchan->lock, flags);
        list_splice_tail_init(&plchan->done_list, &head);
 
-       /* If a new descriptor is queued, set it up plchan->at is NULL here */
-       if (!list_empty(&plchan->issued_list)) {
-               pl08x_start_next_txd(plchan);
-       } else if (!list_empty(&plchan->pend_list) || plchan->phychan_hold) {
+       if (plchan->at || !list_empty(&plchan->pend_list) || plchan->phychan_hold) {
                /*
                 * This channel is still in use - we have a new txd being
                 * prepared and will soon be queued.  Don't give up the
@@ -1786,6 +1783,10 @@ static irqreturn_t pl08x_irq(int irq, void *dev)
                                pl08x_release_mux(plchan);
                                dma_cookie_complete(&tx->tx);
                                list_add_tail(&tx->node, &plchan->done_list);
+
+                               /* And start the next descriptor */
+                               if (!list_empty(&plchan->issued_list))
+                                       pl08x_start_next_txd(plchan);
                        }
                        spin_unlock(&plchan->lock);