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bitbang_spi: Add half-duplex optimizations

Currently, the core of bitbang_spi is a full-duplex SPI loop but in
practice this code is only ever used half-duplex. Spliting this code
into two half duplex loops allows us to optimize performance by reducing
communications and/or CPU pipeline stalls.

The speed up varies depending on how much the overhead of
getting/setting pins dominates execution time. For a USB bit bang driver
running on a 7th generation Core i5, the time to probe drops from ~7.7
seconds to ~6.7 seconds when this patch is applied.

Change-Id: I33b9f363716f651146c09113bda5fffe53b16738
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/26947
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Nico Huber <nico.h@gmx.de>
---
M bitbang_spi.c
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bitbang_spi.c b/bitbang_spi.c
index 2c7a3f1..4b39164 100644
--- a/bitbang_spi.c
+++ b/bitbang_spi.c
@@ -119,14 +119,16 @@
return 0;
}

-static uint8_t bitbang_spi_rw_byte(const struct bitbang_spi_master *master,
- uint8_t val)
+static uint8_t bitbang_spi_read_byte(const struct bitbang_spi_master *master)
{
uint8_t ret = 0;
int i;

for (i = 7; i >= 0; i--) {
- bitbang_spi_set_sck_set_mosi(master, 0, (val >> i) & 1);
+ if (i == 0)
+ bitbang_spi_set_sck_set_mosi(master, 0, 0);
+ else
+ bitbang_spi_set_sck(master, 0);
programmer_delay(master->half_period);
ret <<= 1;
ret |= bitbang_spi_set_sck_get_miso(master, 1);
@@ -135,6 +137,18 @@
return ret;
}

+static void bitbang_spi_write_byte(const struct bitbang_spi_master *master, uint8_t val)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 7; i >= 0; i--) {
+ bitbang_spi_set_sck_set_mosi(master, 0, (val >> i) & 1);
+ programmer_delay(master->half_period);
+ bitbang_spi_set_sck(master, 1);
+ programmer_delay(master->half_period);
+ }
+}
+
static int bitbang_spi_send_command(struct flashctx *flash,
unsigned int writecnt, unsigned int readcnt,
const unsigned char *writearr,
@@ -150,9 +164,9 @@
bitbang_spi_request_bus(master);
bitbang_spi_set_cs(master, 0);
for (i = 0; i < writecnt; i++)
- bitbang_spi_rw_byte(master, writearr[i]);
+ bitbang_spi_write_byte(master, writearr[i]);
for (i = 0; i < readcnt; i++)
- readarr[i] = bitbang_spi_rw_byte(master, 0);
+ readarr[i] = bitbang_spi_read_byte(master);

bitbang_spi_set_sck(master, 0);
programmer_delay(master->half_period);

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Gerrit-Project: flashrom
Gerrit-Branch: master
Gerrit-MessageType: merged
Gerrit-Change-Id: I33b9f363716f651146c09113bda5fffe53b16738
Gerrit-Change-Number: 26947
Gerrit-PatchSet: 4
Gerrit-Owner: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Gerrit-Reviewer: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Gerrit-Reviewer: Nico Huber <nico.h@gmx.de>
Gerrit-Reviewer: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Gerrit-Reviewer: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Gerrit-Reviewer: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>