Improving spi 8 bit per word mode transfer performance by using 16 bit per word transfer and receive when the data length is even and larger than one. Signed-off-by: Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-npcm-pspi.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-npcm-pspi.c b/drivers/spi/spi-npcm-pspi.c index c74611abe2a9..eac7ba18b4b9 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-npcm-pspi.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-npcm-pspi.c @@ -178,6 +178,13 @@ static void npcm_pspi_setup_transfer(struct spi_device *spi, priv->mode = spi->mode; } + /* + * If transfer is even length, and 8 bits per word transfer, + * then implement 16 bits-per-word transfer. + */ + if (priv->bits_per_word == 8 && !(t->len & 0x1)) + t->bits_per_word = 16; + if (!priv->is_save_param || priv->bits_per_word != t->bits_per_word) { npcm_pspi_set_transfer_size(priv, t->bits_per_word); priv->bits_per_word = t->bits_per_word; -- 2.22.0