Re: [PATCH v3 6/8] iio: gyro: bmg160: optimize i2c transfers in trigger handler

From: Pandruvada, Srinivas
Date: Fri Jul 10 2015 - 13:47:09 EST


On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 17:31 +0000, Tirdea, Irina wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan Cameron [mailto:jic23@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 05 July, 2015 15:08
> > To: Tirdea, Irina; Wolfram Sang; linux-iio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-i2c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Pandruvada, Srinivas; Peter Meerwald
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/8] iio: gyro: bmg160: optimize i2c transfers in trigger handler
> >
> > On 03/07/15 10:33, Irina Tirdea wrote:
> > > Some i2c busses (e.g.: Synopsys DesignWare I2C adapter) need to
> > > enable/disable the bus at each i2c transfer and must wait for
> > > the enable/disable to happen before sending the data.
> > >
> > > When reading data in the trigger handler, the bmg160 driver does
> > > one i2c transfer for each axis. This has an impact on the frequency
> > > of the gyroscope at high sample rates due to additional delays
> > > introduced by the i2c bus at each transfer.
> > >
> > > Reading all axis values in one i2c transfer reduces the delays
> > > introduced by the i2c bus. Uses i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data_or_emulated
> > > that will fallback to reading each axis as a separate word in case i2c
> > > block read is not supported.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
>
> Thanks Jonathan!
>
> > Obviously you'll ideally pick up Ack's from the driver authors /maintainers
> > as well.
> >
>
> Srinivas, are you OK with these changes for bmc150, bmg160 and kxcjk-1013?
>
Yes.

Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Thanks,
> Irina
>
> > Jonathan
> > > ---
> > > drivers/iio/gyro/bmg160.c | 18 ++++++++----------
> > > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/iio/gyro/bmg160.c b/drivers/iio/gyro/bmg160.c
> > > index 4b423f2..04e15e9 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/iio/gyro/bmg160.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/iio/gyro/bmg160.c
> > > @@ -784,6 +784,7 @@ static const struct iio_event_spec bmg160_event = {
> > > .sign = 's', \
> > > .realbits = 16, \
> > > .storagebits = 16, \
> > > + .endianness = IIO_LE, \
> > > }, \
> > > .event_spec = &bmg160_event, \
> > > .num_event_specs = 1 \
> > > @@ -822,19 +823,16 @@ static irqreturn_t bmg160_trigger_handler(int irq, void *p)
> > > struct iio_poll_func *pf = p;
> > > struct iio_dev *indio_dev = pf->indio_dev;
> > > struct bmg160_data *data = iio_priv(indio_dev);
> > > - int bit, ret, i = 0;
> > > + int ret = 0;
> > >
> > > mutex_lock(&data->mutex);
> > > - for (bit = 0; bit < AXIS_MAX; bit++) {
> > > - ret = i2c_smbus_read_word_data(data->client,
> > > - BMG160_AXIS_TO_REG(bit));
> > > - if (ret < 0) {
> > > - mutex_unlock(&data->mutex);
> > > - goto err;
> > > - }
> > > - data->buffer[i++] = ret;
> > > - }
> > > + ret = i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data_or_emulated(data->client,
> > > + BMG160_REG_XOUT_L,
> > > + AXIS_MAX * 2,
> > > + (u8 *)data->buffer);
> > > mutex_unlock(&data->mutex);
> > > + if (ret < 0)
> > > + goto err;
> > >
> > > iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp(indio_dev, data->buffer,
> > > data->timestamp);
> > >
>