[PATCH v2 5/6] spi: davinci: do not use DMA if transfer length is less than 16

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Frode Isaksen <fisaksen at baylibre.com> wrote:
> Higher bitrate and lower CPU load if using PIO in this case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Frode Isaksen <fisaksen at baylibre.com>
> ---
>  drivers/spi/spi-davinci.c | 13 +++++++------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-davinci.c b/drivers/spi/spi-davinci.c
> index b69a370..826bff1 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/spi-davinci.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-davinci.c
> @@ -110,6 +110,8 @@
>  #define SPIDEF         0x4c
>  #define SPIFMT0                0x50
>
> +#define DMA_MIN_BYTES  16

16 seems low as the cutoff. Have you found this experimentally and
tested that for e.g. 32
bytes there is actually an advantage in using DMA?

    Arnd