atmel_spi throughput improvement
Don't insert (undesirable) delays between consecutive words (DLYBCT) or when
activating chipselects (DLYBS).
Removing the between-word delays improves the performance of bulk transfers
(such as mtd_dataflash, m25p80, mmc_spi) significantly. In one test, the
improvement was a factor of more than eight!
(The large DLYBCT value came from the legacy at91 SPI driver, and it's not
clear why it used such a huge value.)
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/spi/atmel_spi.c b/drivers/spi/atmel_spi.c
index ff10808..b09d336 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/atmel_spi.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/atmel_spi.c
@@ -490,9 +490,14 @@
if (!(spi->mode & SPI_CPHA))
csr |= SPI_BIT(NCPHA);
- /* TODO: DLYBS and DLYBCT */
- csr |= SPI_BF(DLYBS, 10);
- csr |= SPI_BF(DLYBCT, 10);
+ /* DLYBS is mostly irrelevant since we manage chipselect using GPIOs.
+ *
+ * DLYBCT would add delays between words, slowing down transfers.
+ * It could potentially be useful to cope with DMA bottlenecks, but
+ * in those cases it's probably best to just use a lower bitrate.
+ */
+ csr |= SPI_BF(DLYBS, 0);
+ csr |= SPI_BF(DLYBCT, 0);
/* chipselect must have been muxed as GPIO (e.g. in board setup) */
npcs_pin = (unsigned int)spi->controller_data;