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Baruch Siach authored
A major source of overhead in the enc28j60 driver is the SPI transfers. Each SPI transfer entails two kernel thread context switches. One major source of SPI transfers is the enc28j60_set_bank() functions which runs before every register access. This patch reduces the number of SPI transfers that enc28j60_set_bank() performs in two ways: 1. removes unnecessary bank switch for the registers that are present in all banks 2. when switching from banks 0 or 3 to banks 1 or 2 (i.e. only one bit changes) enc28j60_set_bank() does only one SPI transfer instead of two According to my tests these changes reduce the number of SPI transfers in about 25%. Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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