Re: [PATCH 5/5] iio: adc: ad7380: use spi_optimize_message()

[David Lechner]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 3:47 AM Nuno Sá <noname.nuno@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2024-02-12 at 17:26 -0600, David Lechner wrote:
> > This modifies the ad7380 ADC driver to use spi_optimize_message() to
> > optimize the SPI message for the buffered read operation. Since buffered
> > reads reuse the same SPI message for each read, this can improve
> > performance by reducing the overhead of setting up some parts the SPI
> > message in each spi_sync() call.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Lechner <dlechner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/iio/adc/ad7380.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > -
> >  1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/ad7380.c b/drivers/iio/adc/ad7380.c
> > index abd746aef868..5c5d2642a474 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iio/adc/ad7380.c
> > +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/ad7380.c
> > @@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ struct ad7380_state {
> >       struct spi_device *spi;
> >       struct regulator *vref;
> >       struct regmap *regmap;
> > +     struct spi_message *msg;
> >       /*
> >        * DMA (thus cache coherency maintenance) requires the
> >        * transfer buffers to live in their own cache lines.
> > @@ -231,19 +232,55 @@ static int ad7380_debugfs_reg_access(struct iio_dev
> > *indio_dev, u32 reg,
> >       return ret;
> >  }
> >
> > +static int ad7380_buffer_preenable(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
> > +{
> > +     struct ad7380_state *st = iio_priv(indio_dev);
> > +     struct spi_transfer *xfer;
> > +     int ret;
> > +
> > +     st->msg = spi_message_alloc(1, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +     if (!st->msg)
> > +             return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +     xfer = list_first_entry(&st->msg->transfers, struct spi_transfer,
> > +                             transfer_list);
> > +
> > +     xfer->bits_per_word = st->chip_info->channels[0].scan_type.realbits;
> > +     xfer->len = 4;
> > +     xfer->rx_buf = st->scan_data.raw;
> > +
> > +     ret = spi_optimize_message(st->spi, st->msg);
> > +     if (ret) {
> > +             spi_message_free(st->msg);
> > +             return ret;
> > +     }
> > +
> > +     return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static int ad7380_buffer_postdisable(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
> > +{
> > +     struct ad7380_state *st = iio_priv(indio_dev);
> > +
> > +     spi_unoptimize_message(st->msg);
> > +     spi_message_free(st->msg);
> > +
> > +     return 0;
> > +}
> > +
>
> Not such a big deal but unless I'm missing something we could have the
> spi_message (+ the transfer) statically allocated in struct ad7380_state and do
> the optimize only once at probe (naturally with proper devm action for
> unoptimize). Then we would not need to this for every buffer enable + disable. I
> know in terms of performance it won't matter but it would be less code I guess.
>
> Am I missing something?

No, your understanding is correct for the current state of everything
in this series. So, we could do as you suggest, but I have a feeling
that future additions to this driver might require that it gets
changed back this way eventually.