Re: [PATCH 1/2] dw_dmac: set CAP_PRIVATE capability for DW DMA controller

[Dan Williams]

Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> The weird part was that when testing this, the dma_request_channel()
> would not return any channel before DMA_PRIVATE flag was set. I think I
> did this some time ago, I can do a retest with the current 2.6.29 and
> see how it behaves.

If CONFIG_NET_DMA=y then available channels will be consumed for 
'public' usage.  I would turn that option off for AVR32 as it hurts 
performance on dma-incoherent archs like ARM.  Async_tx will also 
consume public channels if loaded.  2.6.30 will have the 
CONFIG_ASYNC_TX_DMA option to turn off this allocation... or just set 
DMA_PRIVATE and not worry these :-).

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Dan
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