i2c: imx: reduce load by using usleep_range instead of udelay
authorOleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>
Tue, 26 Apr 2016 06:27:46 +0000 (08:27 +0200)
committerWolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Tue, 26 Apr 2016 21:34:09 +0000 (23:34 +0200)
commit2b899f34e1db9adef8716d07e872a800dfa60790
tree6de5190c4e2042cf1fc4522d25f0e8398bfb0f46
parent1bb1ff3e7c74f4569dddf7bda8054a0bb6ed0073
i2c: imx: reduce load by using usleep_range instead of udelay

Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt recommends to use
usleep_range on delays > 10usec. According to my test results
with Neonode zForce touchscreen driver, usleep_range indeed
reduces CPU load.

Stats collected with "./perf record -a -g -F 1000 sleep 10"

i2c-imx with udelay(50):
34.19% 0.00% irq/220-Neonode [kernel.kallsyms] [k] irq_thread
    ---irq_thread
       |--33.75%--irq_thread_fn
       |    |--19.27%--0x7f08a878
       |    |     i2c_master_recv
       |    |     i2c_transfer
       |    |     __i2c_transfer
       |    |     i2c_imx_xfer
       |    |     |--11.71%--i2c_imx_trx_complete
       |    |     |--5.70%--i2c_imx_start <<<<----------------
       |    |     |     |--5.38%--__timer_const_udelay
       |    |     |     |      __timer_delay
       |    |     |     |      --5.07%--read_current_timer

i2c-imx with usleep_range(50,100)
29.08% 0.00% irq/220-Neonode  [kernel.kallsyms] [k] irq_thread
    ---irq_thread
       |--28.89%--irq_thread_fn
       |    |--17.21%--0x7f08a878
       |    |     i2c_master_recv
       |    |     |--17.14%--i2c_transfer
       |    |     |     __i2c_transfer
       |    |     |     i2c_imx_xfer
       |    |     |     |--14.29%--i2c_imx_trx_complete
       |    |     |     |--1.42%--i2c_imx_start <<<<----------
       |    |     |     |      |--0.71%--usleep_range
       |    |     |     |      |--0.53%--i2c_imx_bus_busy

Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c