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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> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
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See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.