[PATCH 00/18] mfd: convert to use maple tree register cache

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Mark,

On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 11:09 AM Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 10:33:22AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > If all of this is true, is there any reason to keep REGCACHE_RBTREE
> > around?  If not, perhaps REGCACHE_RBTREE should be treated as
> > REGCACHE_MAPLE in the regmap core code first, followed by a single
> > tree-wide patch to replace REGCACHE_RBTREE?
>
> There is a very small niche for devices where cache syncs are a
> particularly important part of the workload where rbtree's choices might
> give better performance, especially on systems with low end CPUs.

The REGCACHE_* value is specified by the device, not by the CPU?
While some of these MFD devices are on-SoC, and thus there is some
relation between device and CPU, several others (e.g. PMICs) are
external, and thus might be present on systems with a variety of CPU
performance.

Perhaps the value should depend on some CPU heuristic instead?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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