Howdy Fellows,
I am trying to implement an Ethernet driver for 64-bit Linux (3.5 kernel). I have used Modular SGDMA and everything works fine in a simple case scenarios when it sends or receives a single DMA buffer. However, I am not certain as for how to go about sending and receiving multiple buffers that come from different pages. In the HAL example, I don't think it makes any difference because there is no MMU and no different virtual <-> physical address translation (or is there?). A Linux example (from here —
https://github.com/mapleelpam/sgdma-pcie-driver-demo/blob/master/demo-v1/sgdma_gen1x4.c) is a little bit better as it works with translation registers (see a2p_mask), however... it transfers only one page at a time and only one way.
So the question is, how should I go about handling address translation register(s) for multiple DMA requests in flight (queued into DMA controller core), both to and from the host? By default, PCIe Core has 2 pages for translation registers... but I am not sure how exactly should I use them or if that's enough or not. Any advice/example is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Vlad
