In polling mode, the status register is constantly read to check transfer completion. It cause excessive CPU usage. So, it calculates the SPI transfer time and made it sleep. Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim <jaewon02.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-s3c64xx.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-s3c64xx.c b/drivers/spi/spi-s3c64xx.c index 886722fb40ea..cf3060b2639b 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-s3c64xx.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-s3c64xx.c @@ -561,6 +561,14 @@ static int s3c64xx_wait_for_pio(struct s3c64xx_spi_driver_data *sdd, u32 cpy_len; u8 *buf; int ms; + u32 tx_time; + + /* sleep during signal transfer time */ + status = readl(regs + S3C64XX_SPI_STATUS); + if (RX_FIFO_LVL(status, sdd) < xfer->len) { + tx_time = (xfer->len * 8 * 1000 * 1000) / sdd->cur_speed; + usleep_range(tx_time / 2, tx_time); + } /* millisecs to xfer 'len' bytes @ 'cur_speed' */ ms = xfer->len * 8 * 1000 / sdd->cur_speed; -- 2.17.1