On Thu, 2014-03-27 at 18:20 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > Can you try turning the > tracepoints on and see if they show where the delays are? Both the > message pump and transfer loops have a reasonable number of tracepoints > in them. I did a 'dd if=/dev/mtd6 bs=1K' on an m25p80 chip. Gathered traces suggest that each 1KB block leads to two transfers. The second (the data part) takes several milliseconds (saw some 3-10ms for 1024 bytes :-O ). But I fail to see what might take this long. Will need to dig deeper. virtually yours Gerhard Sittig -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr. 5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-0 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: office@xxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-spi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html