This is a follow-up to [1] where it was suggested to break down the proposed SPI offload support into smaller series. This takes on the first suggested task of introducing an API to "pre-cook" SPI messages. This idea was first discussed extensively in 2013 [2][3] and revisited more briefly 2022 [4]. The goal here is to be able to improve performance (higher throughput, and reduced CPU usage) by allowing peripheral drivers that use the same struct spi_message repeatedly to "pre-cook" the message once to avoid repeating the same validation, and possibly other operations each time the message is sent. This series includes __spi_validate() and the automatic splitting of xfers in the optimizations. Another frequently suggested optimization is doing DMA mapping only once. This is not included in this series, but can be added later (preferably by someone with a real use case for it). To show how this all works and get some real-world measurements, this series includes the core changes, optimization of a SPI controller driver, and optimization of an ADC driver. This test case was only able to take advantage of the single validation optimization, since it didn't require splitting transfers. With these changes, CPU usage of the threaded interrupt handler, which calls spi_sync(), was reduced from 83% to 73% while at the same time the sample rate (frequency of SPI xfers) was increased from 20kHz to 25kHz. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spi/20240109-axi-spi-engine-series-3-v1-1-e42c6a986580@xxxxxxxxxxxx/T/ [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spi/E81F4810-48DD-41EE-B110-D0D848B8A510@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/ [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spi/39DEC004-10A1-47EF-9D77-276188D2580C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/ [4]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spi/20220525163946.48ea40c9@erd992/T/ --- Changes in v2: - Removed pre_optimized parameter from __spi_optimize_message() - Added comment explaining purpose of pre_optimized flag - Fixed missing doc comment for @pre_optimized - Removed kernel doc inclusion (/** -> /*) from static members - Removed unrelated comment about calling spi_finalize_current_message() - Reworked IIO driver patch - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240212-mainline-spi-precook-message-v1-0-a2373cd72d36@xxxxxxxxxxxx --- David Lechner (5): spi: add spi_optimize_message() APIs spi: move splitting transfers to spi_optimize_message() spi: stm32: move splitting transfers to optimize_message spi: axi-spi-engine: move message compile to optimize_message iio: adc: ad7380: use spi_optimize_message() drivers/iio/adc/ad7380.c | 36 +++++- drivers/spi/spi-axi-spi-engine.c | 40 +++--- drivers/spi/spi-stm32.c | 28 +++-- drivers/spi/spi.c | 259 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- include/linux/spi/spi.h | 20 +++ 5 files changed, 297 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 55072343f1df834879b8bae9e419cd5cbb5f3259 prerequisite-patch-id: 844c06b6caf25a2724e130dfa7999dc90dd26fde change-id: 20240208-mainline-spi-precook-message-189b2f08ba7f
