Every SPI transfer could have a different clock rate. The
spi-geni-qcom controller code to deal with this was never very well
optimized and has always had a lot of code plus some calls into the
clk framework which, at the very least, would grab a mutex. However,
until recently, the overhead wasn't _too_ much. That changed with
commit 0e3b8a81f5df ("spi: spi-geni-qcom: Add interconnect support")
we're now calling geni_icc_set_bw(), which leads to a bunch of math
plus:
geni_icc_set_bw()
icc_set_bw()
apply_constraints()
qcom_icc_set()
qcom_icc_bcm_voter_commit()
rpmh_invalidate()
rpmh_write_batch()
...and those rpmh commands can be a bit beefy if you call them too
often.