From: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>, Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>,
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Ramil Zaripov <Ramil.Zaripov@baikalelectronics.ru>,
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Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
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Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/16] spi: dw: Add Tx/Rx finish wait methods to the MID DMA
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 00:36:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200525213613.fqwb6xdb6qsh6xy7@mobilestation> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200525114132.GC4544@sirena.org.uk>
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 12:41:32PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 11:34:10AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> > On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 04:22:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > Right, that definitely needs to be fixed then - 8MHz is indeed a totally
> > > normal clock rate for SPI so people will hit it. I guess if there's a
> > > noticable performance hit to defer to thread then we could implement
> > > both and look at how long the delay is going to be to decide which to
> > > use, that's annoyingly complicated though so if the overhead is small
> > > enough we could just not bother.
>
> > As I suggested before we can implement a solution without performance drop.
> > Just wait for the DMA completion locally in the dw_spi_dma_transfer() method and
> > return 0 instead of 1 from the transfer_one() callback. In that function we'll
> > wait while DMA finishes its business, after that we can check the Tx/Rx FIFO
> > emptiness and wait for the data to be completely transferred with delays or
> > sleeps or whatever.
>
> No extra context switches there at least, that's the main issue.
Right. There won't be extra context switch.
>
> > NOTE Currently the DW APB SSI driver doesn't set xfer->effective_speed_hz, though as
> > far as I can see that field exists there to be initialized by the SPI controller
> > driver, right? If so, strange it isn't done in any SPI drivers...
>
> Yes. Not that many people are concerned about the exact timing it turns
> out, the work that was being used for never fully made it upstream.
>
> > What do think about this?
>
> Sure.
Great. I'll send a new patchset soon. It'll fix the Tx/Rx non-empty issue in
accordance with the proposed design.
-Sergey
>
> > patchset "spi: dw: Add generic DW DMA controller support" (it's being under
> > review in this email thread) ? Anyway, if the fixup is getting to be that
> > complicated, will it have to be backported to another stable kernels?
>
> No, if it's too invasive it shouldn't be (though the stable people might
> decide they want it anyway these days :/ ).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-25 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-22 0:07 [PATCH v4 00/16] spi: dw: Add generic DW DMA controller support Serge Semin
2020-05-22 0:07 ` [PATCH v4 02/16] spi: dw: Enable interrupts in accordance with DMA xfer mode Serge Semin
2020-05-22 0:07 ` [PATCH v4 04/16] spi: dw: Discard unused void priv pointer Serge Semin
2020-05-22 0:07 ` [PATCH v4 06/16] spi: dw: Parameterize the DMA Rx/Tx burst length Serge Semin
2020-05-22 11:06 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-05-22 0:07 ` [PATCH v4 07/16] spi: dw: Use DMA max burst to set the request thresholds Serge Semin
2020-05-22 0:08 ` [PATCH v4 11/16] spi: dw: Remove DW DMA code dependency from DW_DMAC_PCI Serge Semin
2020-05-22 0:08 ` [PATCH v4 12/16] spi: dw: Add DW SPI DMA/PCI/MMIO dependency on the DW SPI core Serge Semin
2020-05-22 11:07 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-05-22 11:08 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-05-22 0:08 ` [PATCH v4 14/16] spi: dw: Add DMA support to the DW SPI MMIO driver Serge Semin
2020-05-22 0:08 ` [PATCH v4 16/16] dt-bindings: spi: Convert DW SPI binding to DT schema Serge Semin
2020-05-28 23:28 ` Rob Herring
[not found] ` <20200522000806.7381-2-Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
2020-05-22 11:13 ` [PATCH v4 01/16] spi: dw: Add Tx/Rx finish wait methods to the MID DMA Andy Shevchenko
[not found] ` <20200522115235.rt3ay7lveimrgooa@mobilestation>
2020-05-22 12:10 ` Mark Brown
2020-05-22 12:12 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-05-22 12:18 ` Mark Brown
2020-05-22 12:34 ` Andy Shevchenko
[not found] ` <20200522124406.co7gmteojfsooerc@mobilestation>
[not found] ` <20200522131013.GH5801@sirena.org.uk>
[not found] ` <20200522132742.taf2ixfjpyd5u3dt@mobilestation>
[not found] ` <20200522140025.bmd6bhpjjk5msvsm@mobilestation>
2020-05-22 14:36 ` Andy Shevchenko
[not found] ` <20200522144542.brhibh453wid2d6v@mobilestation>
2020-05-22 15:22 ` Mark Brown
2020-05-23 8:34 ` Serge Semin
2020-05-25 11:41 ` Mark Brown
2020-05-25 21:36 ` Serge Semin [this message]
2020-05-22 11:22 ` [PATCH v4 00/16] spi: dw: Add generic DW DMA controller support Andy Shevchenko
2020-05-22 11:23 ` Andy Shevchenko
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