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[3/3] iio: adc: ti-ads7950: use SPI_CS_WORD to reduce CPU usage

Message ID 20180918170850.2749-4-david@lechnology.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series spi: SPI_CS_WORD followup | expand

Commit Message

David Lechner Sept. 18, 2018, 5:08 p.m. UTC
This changes how the SPI message for the triggered buffer is setup in
the TI ADS7950 A/DC driver. By using the SPI_CS_WORD flag, we can read
multiple samples in a single SPI transfer. If the SPI controller
supports DMA transfers, we can see a significant reduction in CPU usage.

For example, on an ARM9 system running at 456MHz reading just 4 channels
at 100Hz: before this change, top shows the CPU usage of the IRQ thread
of this driver to be ~7.7%. After this change, the CPU usage drops to
~3.8%.

The use of big-endian for the raw data was cargo culted from another
driver when this driver was originally written. It used an SPI word size
of 8 bits and big-endian byte ordering to effectively emulate 16 bit
words.

Now, in order to inject a CS toggle between each word, we need to use
the correct word size, otherwise we would get a CS toggle half way
through each word 16-bit. The SPI subsystem uses CPU byte ordering for
multi-byte words. So, the data we get back from the SPI is going to be
CPU endian now no matter what. Converting that to big endian will just
add overhead on little endian systems so we opt to change the raw data
format from big endian to CPU endian.

There is a small risk that this could break some lazy userspace programs
that use the raw data without checking the data format. We can address
this if/when it actually comes up.

Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
---
 drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

Comments

David Lechner Sept. 18, 2018, 5:14 p.m. UTC | #1
On 09/18/2018 12:08 PM, David Lechner wrote:
> This changes how the SPI message for the triggered buffer is setup in
> the TI ADS7950 A/DC driver. By using the SPI_CS_WORD flag, we can read
> multiple samples in a single SPI transfer. If the SPI controller
> supports DMA transfers, we can see a significant reduction in CPU usage.
> 
> For example, on an ARM9 system running at 456MHz reading just 4 channels
> at 100Hz: before this change, top shows the CPU usage of the IRQ thread
> of this driver to be ~7.7%. After this change, the CPU usage drops to
> ~3.8%.
> 
> The use of big-endian for the raw data was cargo culted from another
> driver when this driver was originally written. It used an SPI word size
> of 8 bits and big-endian byte ordering to effectively emulate 16 bit
> words.
> 
> Now, in order to inject a CS toggle between each word, we need to use
> the correct word size, otherwise we would get a CS toggle half way
> through each word 16-bit. The SPI subsystem uses CPU byte ordering for
> multi-byte words. So, the data we get back from the SPI is going to be
> CPU endian now no matter what. Converting that to big endian will just
> add overhead on little endian systems so we opt to change the raw data
> format from big endian to CPU endian.
> 
> There is a small risk that this could break some lazy userspace programs
> that use the raw data without checking the data format. We can address
> this if/when it actually comes up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
> ---

And I just realized I forgot to pick up...


Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Jonathan Cameron Sept. 22, 2018, 9:12 a.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 12:14:50 -0500
David Lechner <david@lechnology.com> wrote:

> On 09/18/2018 12:08 PM, David Lechner wrote:
> > This changes how the SPI message for the triggered buffer is setup in
> > the TI ADS7950 A/DC driver. By using the SPI_CS_WORD flag, we can read
> > multiple samples in a single SPI transfer. If the SPI controller
> > supports DMA transfers, we can see a significant reduction in CPU usage.
> > 
> > For example, on an ARM9 system running at 456MHz reading just 4 channels
> > at 100Hz: before this change, top shows the CPU usage of the IRQ thread
> > of this driver to be ~7.7%. After this change, the CPU usage drops to
> > ~3.8%.
> > 
> > The use of big-endian for the raw data was cargo culted from another
> > driver when this driver was originally written. It used an SPI word size
> > of 8 bits and big-endian byte ordering to effectively emulate 16 bit
> > words.
> > 
> > Now, in order to inject a CS toggle between each word, we need to use
> > the correct word size, otherwise we would get a CS toggle half way
> > through each word 16-bit. The SPI subsystem uses CPU byte ordering for
> > multi-byte words. So, the data we get back from the SPI is going to be
> > CPU endian now no matter what. Converting that to big endian will just
> > add overhead on little endian systems so we opt to change the raw data
> > format from big endian to CPU endian.
> > 
> > There is a small risk that this could break some lazy userspace programs
> > that use the raw data without checking the data format. We can address
> > this if/when it actually comes up.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
> > ---  
> 
> And I just realized I forgot to pick up...
> 
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
> 
I've applied this on top of the original series on the basis I doubt
anyone will be testing this particular driver in such a way as to hit the
changes you made in the last two patches + I don't think Mark has tagged
those for me to easily pick up.  If it's a problem I can apply them
to the IIO tree as well and git will sort it out come merge window time.
However, that's inelegant so I won't do it unless needed.

Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as testing for
the autobuilders to play with it

Thanks,

Jonathan
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diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c b/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c
index a5bd5944bc66..0ad63592cc3c 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ 
 
 struct ti_ads7950_state {
 	struct spi_device	*spi;
-	struct spi_transfer	ring_xfer[TI_ADS7950_MAX_CHAN + 2];
+	struct spi_transfer	ring_xfer;
 	struct spi_transfer	scan_single_xfer[3];
 	struct spi_message	ring_msg;
 	struct spi_message	scan_single_msg;
@@ -65,11 +65,11 @@  struct ti_ads7950_state {
 	 * DMA (thus cache coherency maintenance) requires the
 	 * transfer buffers to live in their own cache lines.
 	 */
-	__be16	rx_buf[TI_ADS7950_MAX_CHAN + TI_ADS7950_TIMESTAMP_SIZE]
+	u16 rx_buf[TI_ADS7950_MAX_CHAN + 2 + TI_ADS7950_TIMESTAMP_SIZE]
 							____cacheline_aligned;
-	__be16	tx_buf[TI_ADS7950_MAX_CHAN];
-	__be16			single_tx;
-	__be16			single_rx;
+	u16 tx_buf[TI_ADS7950_MAX_CHAN + 2];
+	u16 single_tx;
+	u16 single_rx;
 
 };
 
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@  enum ti_ads7950_id {
 		.realbits = bits,				\
 		.storagebits = 16,				\
 		.shift = 12 - (bits),				\
-		.endianness = IIO_BE,				\
+		.endianness = IIO_CPU,				\
 	},							\
 }
 
@@ -249,23 +249,14 @@  static int ti_ads7950_update_scan_mode(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
 	len = 0;
 	for_each_set_bit(i, active_scan_mask, indio_dev->num_channels) {
 		cmd = TI_ADS7950_CR_WRITE | TI_ADS7950_CR_CHAN(i) | st->settings;
-		st->tx_buf[len++] = cpu_to_be16(cmd);
+		st->tx_buf[len++] = cmd;
 	}
 
 	/* Data for the 1st channel is not returned until the 3rd transfer */
-	len += 2;
-	for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
-		if ((i + 2) < len)
-			st->ring_xfer[i].tx_buf = &st->tx_buf[i];
-		if (i >= 2)
-			st->ring_xfer[i].rx_buf = &st->rx_buf[i - 2];
-		st->ring_xfer[i].len = 2;
-		st->ring_xfer[i].cs_change = 1;
-	}
-	/* make sure last transfer's cs_change is not set */
-	st->ring_xfer[len - 1].cs_change = 0;
+	st->tx_buf[len++] = 0;
+	st->tx_buf[len++] = 0;
 
-	spi_message_init_with_transfers(&st->ring_msg, st->ring_xfer, len);
+	st->ring_xfer.len = len * 2;
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -281,7 +272,7 @@  static irqreturn_t ti_ads7950_trigger_handler(int irq, void *p)
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto out;
 
-	iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp(indio_dev, st->rx_buf,
+	iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp(indio_dev, &st->rx_buf[2],
 					   iio_get_time_ns(indio_dev));
 
 out:
@@ -298,13 +289,13 @@  static int ti_ads7950_scan_direct(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, unsigned int ch)
 	mutex_lock(&indio_dev->mlock);
 
 	cmd = TI_ADS7950_CR_WRITE | TI_ADS7950_CR_CHAN(ch) | st->settings;
-	st->single_tx = cpu_to_be16(cmd);
+	st->single_tx = cmd;
 
 	ret = spi_sync(st->spi, &st->scan_single_msg);
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
 
-	ret = be16_to_cpu(st->single_rx);
+	ret = st->single_rx;
 
 out:
 	mutex_unlock(&indio_dev->mlock);
@@ -378,6 +369,14 @@  static int ti_ads7950_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
 	const struct ti_ads7950_chip_info *info;
 	int ret;
 
+	spi->bits_per_word = 16;
+	spi->mode |= SPI_CS_WORD;
+	ret = spi_setup(spi);
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		dev_err(&spi->dev, "Error in spi setup\n");
+		return ret;
+	}
+
 	indio_dev = devm_iio_device_alloc(&spi->dev, sizeof(*st));
 	if (!indio_dev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -398,6 +397,16 @@  static int ti_ads7950_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
 	indio_dev->num_channels = info->num_channels;
 	indio_dev->info = &ti_ads7950_info;
 
+	/* build spi ring message */
+	spi_message_init(&st->ring_msg);
+
+	st->ring_xfer.tx_buf = &st->tx_buf[0];
+	st->ring_xfer.rx_buf = &st->rx_buf[0];
+	/* len will be set later */
+	st->ring_xfer.cs_change = true;
+
+	spi_message_add_tail(&st->ring_xfer, &st->ring_msg);
+
 	/*
 	 * Setup default message. The sample is read at the end of the first
 	 * transfer, then it takes one full cycle to convert the sample and one