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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 09:51:40 +0100
From: Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@...tlin.com>
To: "Tudor Ambarus" <tudor.ambarus@...aro.org>, "Mark Brown"
<broonie@...nel.org>
Cc: <linux-spi@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Dhruva
Gole" <d-gole@...com>, "Gregory CLEMENT" <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>,
"Vladimir Kondratiev" <vladimir.kondratiev@...ileye.com>, "Thomas
Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>, "Tawfik Bayouk"
<tawfik.bayouk@...ileye.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: spi-mem: add statistics support to ->exec_op()
calls
Hello,
On Wed Feb 14, 2024 at 9:00 AM CET, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
> On 2/13/24 15:00, Théo Lebrun wrote:
> > On Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 1:39 PM CET, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
> >>> /**
> >>> * spi_mem_exec_op() - Execute a memory operation
> >>> * @mem: the SPI memory
> >>> @@ -339,8 +383,12 @@ int spi_mem_exec_op(struct spi_mem *mem, const struct spi_mem_op *op)
> >>> * read path) and expect the core to use the regular SPI
> >>> * interface in other cases.
> >>> */
> >>> - if (!ret || ret != -ENOTSUPP || ret != -EOPNOTSUPP)
> >>> + if (!ret || ret != -ENOTSUPP || ret != -EOPNOTSUPP) {
> >>> + spi_mem_add_op_stats(ctlr->pcpu_statistics, op, ret);
> >>> + spi_mem_add_op_stats(mem->spi->pcpu_statistics, op, ret);
> >>> +
> >>
> >> Would be good to be able to opt out the statistics if one wants it.
> >>
> >> SPI NORs can write with a single write op maximum page_size bytes, which
> >> is typically 256 bytes. And since there are SPI NORs that can run at 400
> >> MHz, I guess some performance penalty shouldn't be excluded.
> >
> > I did my testing on a 40 MHz octal SPI NOR with most reads being much
> > bigger than 256 bytes, so I probably didn't have the fastest setup
> > indeed.
>
> yeah, reads are bigger, the entire flash can be read with a single read op.
>
> >
> > What shape would that take? A spi-mem DT prop? New field in the SPI
> > statistics sysfs directory?
> >
>
> I think I'd go with a sysfs entry, it provides flexibility. But I guess
> we can worry about this if we have some numbers, and I don't have, so
> you're fine even without the opt-out option.
Some ftrace numbers:
- 48002 calls to spi_mem_add_op_stats();
- min 1.053000µs;
- avg 1.175652µs;
- max 16.272000µs.
Platform is Mobileye EyeQ5. Cores are Imagine Technologies I6500-F. I
don't know the precision of our timer but we might be getting close to
what is measurable.
Thanks,
--
Théo Lebrun, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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