Re: [RFC RFT PATCH 0/4] gpiolib: speed up GPIO array processing

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On 21 August 2018 at 01:43, Janusz Krzysztofik <jmkrzyszt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This series is a follow up of the former "mtd: rawnand: ams-delta: Use
> gpio-omap accessors for data I/O" which already contained some changes
> to gpiolib.  Those previous attempts were commented by Borris Brezillon
> who suggested using GPIO API modified to accept bitmaps, and by Linus
> Walleij who suggested still more great ideas for further immprovement
> of the proposed API changes - thanks!
>
> The goal is to boost performans of get/set array functions while
> processing GPIO arrays which represent pins of a signle chip in
> hardware order.  If resulting performance is close to PIO, GPIO API
> can be used for data I/O without much loss of speed.
>
> Created and tested on a low end Amstrad Delta board with NAND driver
> updated to use GPIO API for data I/O.  Performance degrade compared to
> PIO is much better than before the optimization but still not quite
> satisfactory.
>
>
> Janusz Krzysztofik (4):
>       gpiolib: Pass bitmaps, not integer arrays, to get/set array
>       gpiolib: Identify arrays matching GPIO hardware
>       gpiolib: Pass array info to get/set array functions
>       gpiolib: Implement fast processing path in get/set array
>
>
>  Documentation/driver-api/gpio/board.rst     |   15 +
>  Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst  |   48 +++-
>  drivers/auxdisplay/hd44780.c                |   64 +++---
>  drivers/bus/ts-nbus.c                       |   25 --
>  drivers/gpio/gpio-max3191x.c                |   23 +-
>  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c                      |  279 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h                      |   15 +
>  drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-gpio.c            |    5
>  drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq_simple.c            |   15 -
>  drivers/mux/gpio.c                          |    7
>  drivers/net/phy/mdio-mux-gpio.c             |    5
>  drivers/pcmcia/soc_common.c                 |   14 -
>  drivers/phy/motorola/phy-mapphone-mdm6600.c |   21 +-
>  drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7606.c            |   12 -
>  drivers/tty/serial/serial_mctrl_gpio.c      |    9
>  include/linux/gpio/consumer.h               |   35 ++-
>  16 files changed, 410 insertions(+), 182 deletions(-)
>

For the mmc related changes:

Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>

Kind regards
Uffe



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