I doubt patches 3 and 4 are acceptable, but I'd still like to get comments and/or alternative suggestions for making large transfers faster. The patches have been tested on an MPC8309 with a Cypress S25FL032P spi-nor slave, and make various operations between 50% and 73% faster. We have not observed any problems, but to completely rule out the possibility of "glitches on SPI CLK" mentioned in patch 3 would of course require testing on a much wider set of hardware combinations. Rasmus Villemoes (4): spi: spi-fsl-spi: remove always-true conditional in fsl_spi_do_one_msg spi: spi-fsl-spi: relax message sanity checking a little spi: spi-fsl-spi: allow changing bits_per_word while CS is still active spi: spi-fsl-spi: automatically adapt bits-per-word in cpu mode drivers/spi/spi-fsl-spi.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) -- 2.20.1