TI QSPI has four 32 bit data regsiters which can be used to transfer 16
bytes of data at once. The register group QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG_3,
QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG_2, QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG_1 and QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG is
treated as a single 128-bit word for shifting data in and out. The bit
at QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG_3[31] position is the first bit to be shifted out
in case of 128 bit transfer mode. Therefore the first byte to be written
to flash should be at QSPI_SPI_DATA_REG_3[31-25] position.
Instead of writing 1 byte at a time when interacting with spi-nor flash,
make use of all the four registers so that 16 bytes can be transferred
in one go. This reduces number of register writes and Word Complete
interrupts for a given transfer message size, thereby increasing the
write performance.
Without this patch the raw flash write speed is ~100KB/s, with this
patch the write speed increases to ~400 kB/s on DRA74 EVM.
Signed-off-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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