Re: [PATCH] spi: spi-mem: add statistics support to ->exec_op() calls

From: Théo Lebrun
Date: Tue Feb 13 2024 - 10:03:24 EST


Hello Tudor,

On Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 1:39 PM CET, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
> > /**
> > * spi_mem_exec_op() - Execute a memory operation
> > * @mem: the SPI memory
> > @@ -339,8 +383,12 @@ int spi_mem_exec_op(struct spi_mem *mem, const struct spi_mem_op *op)
> > * read path) and expect the core to use the regular SPI
> > * interface in other cases.
> > */
> > - if (!ret || ret != -ENOTSUPP || ret != -EOPNOTSUPP)
> > + if (!ret || ret != -ENOTSUPP || ret != -EOPNOTSUPP) {
> > + spi_mem_add_op_stats(ctlr->pcpu_statistics, op, ret);
> > + spi_mem_add_op_stats(mem->spi->pcpu_statistics, op, ret);
> > +
>
> Would be good to be able to opt out the statistics if one wants it.
>
> SPI NORs can write with a single write op maximum page_size bytes, which
> is typically 256 bytes. And since there are SPI NORs that can run at 400
> MHz, I guess some performance penalty shouldn't be excluded.

I did my testing on a 40 MHz octal SPI NOR with most reads being much
bigger than 256 bytes, so I probably didn't have the fastest setup
indeed.

What shape would that take? A spi-mem DT prop? New field in the SPI
statistics sysfs directory?

Other remarks have been taken into account, thanks!

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Théo Lebrun, Bootlin
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