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    dmaengine: dw-dmac: implement dma protection control setting · 7b0c03ec
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    This patch adds a new device-tree property that allows to
    specify the dma protection control bits for the all of the
    DMA controller's channel uniformly.
    
    Setting the "correct" bits can have a huge impact on the
    PPC460EX and APM82181 that use this DMA engine in combination
    with a DesignWare' SATA-II core (sata_dwc_460ex driver).
    
    In the OpenWrt Forum, the user takimata reported that:
    |It seems your patch unleashed the full power of the SATA port.
    |Where I was previously hitting a really hard limit at around
    |82 MB/s for reading and 27 MB/s for writing, I am now getting this:
    |
    |root@OpenWrt:/mnt# time dd if=/dev/zero of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024
    |1024+0 records in
    |1024+0 records out
    |real    0m 13.65s
    |user    0m 0.01s
    |sys     0m 11.89s
    |
    |root@OpenWrt:/mnt# time dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024
    |1024+0 records in
    |1024+0 records out
    |real    0m 8.41s
    |user    0m 0.01s
    |sys     0m 4.70s
    |
    |This means: 121 MB/s reading and 75 MB/s writing!
    |
    |The drive is a WD Green WD10EARX taken from an older MBL Single.
    |I repeated the test a few times with even larger files to rule out
    |any caching, I'm still seeing the same great performance. OpenWrt is
    |now completely on par with the original MBL firmware's performance.
    
    Another user And.short reported:
    |I can report that your fix worked! Boots up fine with two
    |drives even with more partitions, and no more reboot on
    |concurrent disk access!
    
    A closer look into the sata_dwc_460ex code revealed that
    the driver did initally set the correct protection control
    bits. However, this feature was lost when the sata_dwc_460ex
    driver was converted to the generic DMA driver framework.
    
    BugLink: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/wd-mybook-live-duo-two-disks/16195/55
    BugLink: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/wd-mybook-live-duo-two-disks/16195/50
    Fixes: 8b344485 ("sata_dwc_460ex: move to generic DMA driver")
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
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