In our former i2c driver, i2c clk is enabled and disabled in
xfer function, which contributes to power saving. However,
the clk enable process brings a busy wait delay until the core
is stable. As a result, the performance is sacrificed.
To weigh the power consumption and i2c bus performance, runtime
pm is the good solution for it. The clk is enabled when a i2c
transfer starts, and disabled after a specifically defined delay.
If CONFIG_PM is disabled the net result of this patch is that the
clock is never disabled.
Without the patch the test case (many eeprom reads) executes with approx:
real 1m7.735s
user 0m0.488s
sys 0m20.040s
With the patch the same test case (many eeprom reads) executes with approx:
real 0m54.241s
user 0m0.440s
sys 0m5.920s
Signed-off-by: Fugang Duan <B38611@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Gao Pan <b54642@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
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Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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