[PATCH] spi: ti-qspi: use 128 bit transfer mode for writing to flash

From: Vignesh R
Date: Thu Aug 20 2015 - 06:31:46 EST


TI QSPI has four 32 bit data regsiters which can be used to transfer 16
bytes of data at once. The register group QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG_3,
QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG_2, QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG_1 and QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG is
treated as a single 128-bit word for shifting data in and out. The bit
at QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG_3[31] position is the first bit to be shifted out
in case of 128 bit transfer mode. Therefore the first byte to be written
to flash should be at QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG_3[31-25] position.
Instead of writing 1 byte at a time when interacting with spi-nor flash,
make use of all the four registers so that 16 bytes can be transferred
in one go. This reduces number of register writes and Word Complete
interrupts for a given transfer message size, thereby increasing the
write performance.

Without this patch the raw flash write speed is ~100KB/s, with this
patch the write speed increases to ~400 kB/s on DRA74 EVM.

Signed-off-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/spi/spi-ti-qspi.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-ti-qspi.c b/drivers/spi/spi-ti-qspi.c
index 45844a227c5e..f4cea6834fad 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-ti-qspi.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-ti-qspi.c
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ struct ti_qspi {
#define QSPI_INVAL (4 << 16)
#define QSPI_WC_CMD_INT_EN (1 << 14)
#define QSPI_FLEN(n) ((n - 1) << 0)
+#define QSPI_WLEN_MAX_BITS 128
+#define QSPI_WLEN_MAX_BYTES 16

/* STATUS REGISTER */
#define BUSY 0x01
@@ -224,14 +226,16 @@ static inline u32 qspi_is_busy(struct ti_qspi *qspi)

static int qspi_write_msg(struct ti_qspi *qspi, struct spi_transfer *t)
{
- int wlen, count;
+ int wlen, count, xfer_len;
unsigned int cmd;
const u8 *txbuf;
+ u32 data;

txbuf = t->tx_buf;
cmd = qspi->cmd | QSPI_WR_SNGL;
count = t->len;
wlen = t->bits_per_word >> 3; /* in bytes */
+ xfer_len = wlen;

while (count) {
if (qspi_is_busy(qspi))
@@ -241,7 +245,29 @@ static int qspi_write_msg(struct ti_qspi *qspi, struct spi_transfer *t)
case 1:
dev_dbg(qspi->dev, "tx cmd %08x dc %08x data %02x\n",
cmd, qspi->dc, *txbuf);
- writeb(*txbuf, qspi->base + QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG);
+ if (count >= QSPI_WLEN_MAX_BYTES) {
+ u32 *txp = (u32 *)txbuf;
+
+ data = cpu_to_be32(*txp++);
+ writel(data, qspi->base +
+ QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG_3);
+ data = cpu_to_be32(*txp++);
+ writel(data, qspi->base +
+ QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG_2);
+ data = cpu_to_be32(*txp++);
+ writel(data, qspi->base +
+ QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG_1);
+ data = cpu_to_be32(*txp++);
+ writel(data, qspi->base +
+ QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG);
+ xfer_len = QSPI_WLEN_MAX_BYTES;
+ cmd |= QSPI_WLEN(QSPI_WLEN_MAX_BITS);
+ } else {
+ writeb(*txbuf, qspi->base + QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG);
+ cmd = qspi->cmd | QSPI_WR_SNGL;
+ xfer_len = wlen;
+ cmd |= QSPI_WLEN(wlen);
+ }
break;
case 2:
dev_dbg(qspi->dev, "tx cmd %08x dc %08x data %04x\n",
@@ -261,8 +287,8 @@ static int qspi_write_msg(struct ti_qspi *qspi, struct spi_transfer *t)
dev_err(qspi->dev, "write timed out\n");
return -ETIMEDOUT;
}
- txbuf += wlen;
- count -= wlen;
+ txbuf += xfer_len;
+ count -= xfer_len;
}

return 0;
--
2.5.0

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