On 12-02-25, 17:35, Jyothi Kumar Seerapu wrote:

GSI hardware generates an interrupt for each transfer completion. For multiple messages within a single transfer, this results in N interrupts for N messages, leading to significant software interrupt latency.

To mitigate this latency, utilize Block Event Interrupt (BEI) mechanism. Enabling BEI instructs the GSI hardware to prevent interrupt generation and BEI is disabled when an interrupt is necessary.

When using BEI, consider splitting a single multi-message transfer into chunks of 8 messages internally and so interrupts are not expected for the first 7 message completions, only the last message triggers an interrupt, indicating the completion of 8 messages.

This BEI mechanism enhances overall transfer efficiency.

That sounds good but I dont like the idea that we add a custom interface for this. Please use DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT instead. Adding this flag should trigger N interrupts, absence of this should lead to Block events only