On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:45:54 +0100
Rodrigo Alencar via B4 Relay <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> From: Rodrigo Alencar <[email protected]>
> 
> Use of local SPI bus data to manage a collection of SPI transfers and
> flush them to the SPI platform driver with the sync() operation. This
> allows for faster handling of multiple channel DAC writes, avoiding kernel
> overhead per spi_sync() call, which will be helpful when enabling
> triggered buffer support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Alencar <[email protected]>
Interesting approach to potentially optimise for SPI.  Do you have
perf numbers or similar to support it being worth the effort?

Otherwise a few minor comments inline.

Thanks,

J
> ---
>  drivers/iio/dac/ad5686-spi.c | 110 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  drivers/iio/dac/ad5686.c     |   4 +-
>  drivers/iio/dac/ad5686.h     |   8 +++-
>  drivers/iio/dac/ad5696-i2c.c |   2 +-
>  4 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/dac/ad5686-spi.c b/drivers/iio/dac/ad5686-spi.c
> index ebfc40efa679..bacfb1deab31 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/dac/ad5686-spi.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/dac/ad5686-spi.c
> @@ -13,57 +13,80 @@
>  #include <linux/err.h>
>  #include <linux/mod_devicetable.h>
>  #include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/overflow.h>
>  #include <linux/spi/spi.h>
>  
>  #include "ad5686.h"
>  
> +struct ad5686_spi_data {
> +     struct spi_message msg;
> +     unsigned int size;
> +     unsigned int capacity;
> +     struct spi_transfer xfers[] __counted_by(capacity);
> +};
> +
>  static int ad5686_spi_write(struct ad5686_state *st,
>                           u8 cmd, u8 addr, u16 val)
>  {
> -     struct spi_device *spi = to_spi_device(st->dev);
> -     u8 tx_len, *buf;
> +     struct ad5686_spi_data *bus_data = st->bus_data;
> +     struct spi_transfer *xfer;
> +
> +     if (bus_data->size >= bus_data->capacity)
> +             return -E2BIG;
> +
> +     if (bus_data->size)
> +             bus_data->xfers[bus_data->size - 1].cs_change = 1;
> +     else
> +             spi_message_init(&bus_data->msg);
> +
> +     xfer = &bus_data->xfers[bus_data->size];
> +     xfer->rx_buf = NULL;
> +     xfer->cs_change = 0;
>  
>       switch (st->chip_info->regmap_type) {
>       case AD5310_REGMAP:
> -             st->data[0].d16 = cpu_to_be16(AD5310_CMD(cmd) |
> -                                           val);
Fits on oneline.

> -             buf = &st->data[0].d8[0];
> -             tx_len = 2;
> +             st->data[bus_data->size].d16 = cpu_to_be16(AD5310_CMD(cmd) |
> +                                                        val);

Even these I'd put on one line to improve readability, or split as:
                st->data[bus_data->size].d16 =
                        cpu_to_be16(...)


> +             xfer->tx_buf = &st->data[bus_data->size].d8[0];
> +             xfer->len = 2;
>               break;
>       case AD5683_REGMAP:
> -             st->data[0].d32 = cpu_to_be32(AD5686_CMD(cmd) |
> -                                           AD5683_DATA(val));
> -             buf = &st->data[0].d8[1];
> -             tx_len = 3;
> +             st->data[bus_data->size].d32 = cpu_to_be32(AD5686_CMD(cmd) |
> +                                                        AD5683_DATA(val));
> +             xfer->tx_buf = &st->data[bus_data->size].d8[1];
> +             xfer->len = 3;
>               break;
>       case AD5686_REGMAP:
> -             st->data[0].d32 = cpu_to_be32(AD5686_CMD(cmd) |
> -                                           AD5686_ADDR(addr) |
> -                                           val);
> -             buf = &st->data[0].d8[1];
> -             tx_len = 3;
> +             st->data[bus_data->size].d32 = cpu_to_be32(AD5686_CMD(cmd) |
> +                                                        AD5686_ADDR(addr) |
> +                                                        val);
> +             xfer->tx_buf = &st->data[bus_data->size].d8[1];
> +             xfer->len = 3;
>               break;
>       default:
>               return -EINVAL;
>       }
>  
> -     return spi_write(spi, buf, tx_len);
> +     spi_message_add_tail(xfer, &bus_data->msg);
> +     bus_data->size++;
> +
> +     return 0;
> +}

>  
>  static int ad5686_spi_read(struct ad5686_state *st, u8 addr)
>  {
> -     struct spi_transfer t[] = {
> -             {
> -                     .tx_buf = &st->data[0].d8[1],
> -                     .len = 3,
> -                     .cs_change = 1,
> -             }, {
> -                     .tx_buf = &st->data[1].d8[1],
> -                     .rx_buf = &st->data[2].d8[1],
> -                     .len = 3,
> -             },
> -     };
>       struct spi_device *spi = to_spi_device(st->dev);
> +     struct ad5686_spi_data *bus_data = st->bus_data;
> +     struct spi_transfer *xfer = &bus_data->xfers[0];
>       u8 cmd = 0;
>       int ret;
>  
> @@ -84,8 +107,18 @@ static int ad5686_spi_read(struct ad5686_state *st, u8 
> addr)
>                                     AD5686_ADDR(addr));
>       st->data[1].d32 = cpu_to_be32(AD5686_CMD(AD5686_CMD_NOOP));
>  
> -     ret = spi_sync_transfer(spi, t, ARRAY_SIZE(t));
> -     if (ret < 0)
> +     xfer[0].tx_buf = &st->data[0].d8[1];
> +     xfer[0].len = 3;
> +     xfer[0].cs_change = 1;
> +     xfer[1].tx_buf = &st->data[1].d8[1];
> +     xfer[1].rx_buf = &st->data[2].d8[1];
> +     xfer[1].len = 3;
> +     xfer[1].cs_change = 0;
> +
> +     spi_message_init_with_transfers(&bus_data->msg, xfer, 2);

Why not carry on using spi_sync_transfer() here?
We'll end up with an spi message the stack but I suspect that's
not a significant performance cost.



> +
> +     ret = spi_sync(spi, &bus_data->msg);
> +     if (ret)
>               return ret;
>  
>       return be32_to_cpu(st->data[2].d32);



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