linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/6] Support ECSPI dynamic burst feature for DMA mode

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Message-Id: <20251125100618.2159770-1-carlos.song@nxp.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:06:12 +0800
From: Carlos Song <carlos.song@....com>
To: broonie@...nel.org,
	frank.li@....com,
	hawnguo@...nel.org,
	s.hauer@...gutronix.de,
	kernel@...gutronix.de,
	festevam@...il.com
Cc: linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
	imx@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Carlos Song <carlos.song@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] Support ECSPI dynamic burst feature for DMA mode

ECSPI has a low throughput because of no dynamic burst support, it
transfers only one word per frame in DMA mode, causing SCLK stalls
between words due to BURST_LENGTH updates.

This patch set is to support ECSPI dynamic burst feature to help improve
the ECSPI DMA mode performance.

Performance test (spidev_test @10MHz, 4KB):
  Before: tx/rx ~6651.9 kbps
  After:  tx/rx ~9922.2 kbps (~50% improvement)

For compatibility with slow SPI devices, add configurable word delay in
DMA mode. When word delay is set, dynamic burst is disabled and
BURST_LENGTH equals word length.

Also support target DMA mode with enabled dynamic burst.

Carlos Song (6):
  spi: imx: group spi_imx_dma_configure() with spi_imx_dma_transfer()
  spi: imx: introduce helper to clear DMA mode logic
  spi: imx: avoid dmaengine_terminate_all() on TX prep failure
  spi: imx: handle DMA submission errors with dma_submit_error()
  spi: imx: support dynamic burst length for ECSPI DMA mode
  spi: imx: enable DMA mode for target operation

 drivers/spi/spi-imx.c | 620 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 513 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-)

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2.34.1