The patch increases the read buffer size to 180 bytes. It reduces
the number of ft260_i2c_read() calls by three, improving the big
reads performance.
$ sudo i2ctransfer -y -f 13 w2@0x51 0x0 0x0 r180
Before:
[ +4.071878] ft260_i2c_write_read: off 0x0 rlen 180 wlen 2
[ +0.000005] ft260_i2c_write: rep 0xd0 addr 0x51 off 0 len 2 wlen 2 flag 0x2 d[0] 0x0
[ +0.001097] ft260_xfer_status: bus_status 0x41, clock 100
[ +0.000175] ft260_xfer_status: bus_status 0x40, clock 100
[ +0.000004] ft260_i2c_read: rep 0xc2 addr 0x51 len 180 rlen 60 flag 0x3
[ +0.008579] ft260_raw_event: i2c resp: rep 0xde len 60
[ +0.000208] ft260_xfer_status: bus_status 0x40, clock 100
[ +0.000001] ft260_i2c_read: rep 0xc2 addr 0x51 len 120 rlen 60 flag 0x0
[ +0.008794] ft260_raw_event: i2c resp: rep 0xde len 60
[ +0.000181] ft260_xfer_status: bus_status 0x40, clock 100
[ +0.000002] ft260_i2c_read: rep 0xc2 addr 0x51 len 60 rlen 60 flag 0x4
[ +0.008817] ft260_raw_event: i2c resp: rep 0xde len 60
[ +0.000223] ft260_xfer_status: bus_status 0x20, clock 100
After:
[ +11.611642] ft260_i2c_write_read: off 0x0 rlen 180 wlen 2
[ +0.000005] ft260_i2c_write: rep 0xd0 addr 0x51 off 0 len 2 wlen 2 flag 0x2 d[0] 0x0
[ +0.008001] ft260_xfer_status: bus_status 0x20, clock 100
[ +0.000001] ft260_i2c_read: rep 0xc2 addr 0x51 len 180 rlen 180 flag 0x7
[ +0.008994] ft260_raw_event: i2c resp: rep 0xde len 60
[ +0.007987] ft260_raw_event: i2c resp: rep 0xde len 60
[ +0.007992] ft260_raw_event: i2c resp: rep 0xde len 60
[ +0.000206] ft260_xfer_status: bus_status 0x20, clock 100
Suggested-by: Enrik Berkhan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael Zaidman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/hid/hid-ft260.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-ft260.c b/drivers/hid/hid-ft260.c
index a354089bb747..91f9087e49dc 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-ft260.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-ft260.c
@@ -30,12 +30,19 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "Toggle FT260 debugging messages");
#define FT260_REPORT_MAX_LENGTH (64)
#define FT260_I2C_DATA_REPORT_ID(len) (FT260_I2C_REPORT_MIN + (len - 1) / 4)
+
/*
- * The input report format assigns 62 bytes for the data payload, but ft260
- * returns 60 and 2 in two separate transactions. To minimize transfer time
- * in reading chunks mode, set the maximum read payload length to 60 bytes.
- */
-#define FT260_RD_DATA_MAX (60)
+ * The ft260 input report format defines 62 bytes for the data payload, but
+ * when requested 62 bytes, the controller returns 60 and 2 in separate input
+ * reports. To achieve better performance with the multi-report read data
+ * transfers, we set the maximum read payload length to a multiple of 60.
+ * With a 100 kHz I2C clock, one 240 bytes read takes about 1/27 second,
+ * which is excessive; On the other hand, some higher layer drivers like at24
+ * or optoe limit the i2c reads to 128 bytes. To not block other drivers out
+ * of I2C for potentially troublesome amounts of time, we select the maximum
+ * read payload length to be 180 bytes.
+*/
+#define FT260_RD_DATA_MAX (180)
#define FT260_WR_DATA_MAX (60)
/*
--
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