Re: [PATCH 0/2] spi: Add DMA mode support to spi-qcom-qspi

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Vijaya Krishna Nivarthi (2023-04-04 11:03:18)
> There are large number of QSPI irqs that fire during boot/init and later
> on every suspend/resume.
> This could be made faster by doing DMA instead of PIO.
> Below is comparison for number of interrupts raised in 2 acenarios...
> Boot up and stabilise
> Suspend/Resume
>
> Sequence   PIO    DMA
> =======================
> Boot-up    69088  19284
> S/R        5066   3430
>

The interrupts are less, yes, but does it save time or power?