This adds a check on xfer->len to avoid emitting an XFER_BITS instruction for empty transfers in the AXI SPI Engine driver. This avoids unnecessary delays caused by executing an instruction that has no effect on the actual SPI transfer. Signed-off-by: David Lechner <dlechner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-axi-spi-engine.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-axi-spi-engine.c b/drivers/spi/spi-axi-spi-engine.c index 447e5a962dee..cb3fdcbca2be 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-axi-spi-engine.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-axi-spi-engine.c @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ static void spi_engine_compile_message(struct spi_message *msg, bool dry, clk_div - 1)); } - if (bits_per_word != xfer->bits_per_word) { + if (bits_per_word != xfer->bits_per_word && xfer->len) { bits_per_word = xfer->bits_per_word; spi_engine_program_add_cmd(p, dry, SPI_ENGINE_CMD_WRITE(SPI_ENGINE_CMD_REG_XFER_BITS, --- base-commit: 67e899c7df7dd8507ab61a2e71fe6c8299afd427 change-id: 20240723-spi-axi-spi-engine-opt-bpw-e801253aa43a