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SubjectRe: [PATCH 07/16] spi: bcm63xx-hsspi: Add polling mode support
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On 01/09/2023 11:06 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 07:35:59PM -0800, William Zhang wrote:
>> On 01/06/2023 01:47 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 12:07:59PM -0800, William Zhang wrote:
>
>>>> When interrupt is not defined in the HSSPI dts node, driver switches to
>>>> polling mode for controller SPI message processing. Also add driver
>>>> banner message when the driver is loaded successfully.
>
>>> This should not be something the user selects via the DT, if the polling
>>> mode is better then the driver should just use it regardless of there
>>> being an interrupt wired up. Generally there's some point at which the
>>> benefits of polling become minimal (and the costs more impactful) but if
>>> the DMA setup is as bad as it sounds then the driver should just ignore
>>> the interrupt.
>
>> I agree but this is more for backward compatibility as the original driver
>> uses interrupt to work with MIPS based SoC and I do not want to change that
>> behavior. For newer devices I added, they work in polling mode by default
>> with the dts I supplied. IMHO it is also good to have this fallback option
>> to use interrupt in case user is sensitive to cpu usage.
>
> You can put whatever logic is needed in the code - for something like
> this an architecture based define isn't ideal but is probably good
> enough if need be (though I'd not be surprised if it turned out that
> there was also some performance benefit for the MIPS systems too, at
> least for smaller transfers).
>
I just don't know what other logic I can put in the driver to select
interrupt or polling mode. Only the end user know if performance or cpu
usage is more important to their application.
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