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Commit 8037dbaa authored by Felix Gerking's avatar Felix Gerking Committed by Jonas Höppner
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drivers:i2c-imx: Add option for i2c read processing within ISR

By default the read msg process is handled by the follwing queue
mechanism:
1. Client driver read request
2. The i2c driver triggers a read and waits for a byte to be ready to read
3. ISR sends a wake_up call to the queue when the byte is ready to read
5. The i2c driver becomes scheduled again and reads the byte
6. The i2c driver waits for the next byte and so on

For some reason, it often takes a long time to reschedule the i2c
driver after the ISR reports ready status. This causes problems with
i2c devices that cause a lot of bus traffic, such as touch devices.
To resolve this, the devicetree flag "enable-i2c-isr" enables the
following read routine:
1. Client driver read request
2. The i2c driver triggers a read and waits for the ISR
3. The ISR reads the bytes itself and wakes up the queue when
   all bytes are processed

This way the wake_up calls are reduced by the number of bytes in a message
and processing becomes much faster. However the ISR does more, but adding
something that controls the scheduling of the i2c driver also seems to be
very complicated.

BCS 746-001477 746-001000
parent 7189528c
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