Re: [PATCH v8 0/4] gpiolib: speed up GPIO array processing

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Sep 13 2018 - 05:22:25 EST


On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 11:49 PM Janusz Krzysztofik <jmkrzyszt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The goal is to boost performance of get/set array functions while
> processing GPIO arrays which represent pins of a signle chip in
> hardware order. If resulting performance is close to PIO, GPIO API
> can be used for data I/O without much loss of speed.

I applied the v8 to an immutable branch and pushed to kernelorg
so the build servers can churn it a bit, and if it works fine
then we can merge this into the devel branch and also set up
that as something other subsystems can pull in if they need it.

I'm really excited to merge this!

Yours,
Linus Walleij