[PATCH v2 0/2] ic2: mux: pca9541: add delayed-release support

[Zev Weiss]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 04:18:08PM PST, Zev Weiss wrote:
>Hello,
>
>This series adds support for a new pca9541 device-tree property
>("release-delay-us"), which delays releasing ownership of the bus
>after a transaction for a configurable duration, anticipating that
>another transaction may follow shortly.  By avoiding a
>release/reacquisition between transactions, this can provide a
>substantial performance improvement for back-to-back operations -- on
>a Delta AHE-50DC (ASPEED AST1250) system running OpenBMC with dozens
>of LM25066 PMICs on PCA9541-arbitrated busses, a setting of 10000 (10
>ms) reduces the median latency the psusensor daemon's hwmon sysfs file
>reads from 2.28 ms to 0.99 ms (a 57% improvement).
>

Ping...Guenter, any thoughts on this?


Thanks,
Zev