Author: hailfinger
Date: 2009-11-25 17:58:17 +0100 (Wed, 25 Nov 2009)
New Revision: 780

Modified:
   trunk/bitbang_spi.c
   trunk/ft2232_spi.c
Log:
Reduce realloc syscall overhead for FT2232 and bitbang.

FT2232 ran realloc() for every executed command. Start with a big enough
buffer and don't touch buffer size unless it needs to grow.
Bitbang was slightly better: It only ran realloc() if buffer size
changed. Still, the solution above improves performance and reliability.

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Sean Nelson <[email protected]>


Modified: trunk/bitbang_spi.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/bitbang_spi.c 2009-11-25 16:41:50 UTC (rev 779)
+++ trunk/bitbang_spi.c 2009-11-25 16:58:17 UTC (rev 780)
@@ -87,14 +87,16 @@
        static unsigned char *bufout = NULL;
        static unsigned char *bufin = NULL;
        static int oldbufsize = 0;
-       int bufsize = max(writecnt + readcnt, 260);
+       int bufsize;
        int i;
 
        /* Arbitrary size limitation here. We're only constrained by memory. */
        if (writecnt > 65536 || readcnt > 65536)
                return SPI_INVALID_LENGTH;
 
-       if (bufsize != oldbufsize) {
+       bufsize = max(writecnt + readcnt, 260);
+       /* Never shrink. realloc() calls are expensive. */
+       if (bufsize > oldbufsize) {
                bufout = realloc(bufout, bufsize);
                if (!bufout) {
                        fprintf(stderr, "Out of memory!\n");
@@ -109,6 +111,7 @@
                                free(bufout);
                        exit(1);
                }
+               oldbufsize = bufsize;
        }
                
        memcpy(bufout, writearr, writecnt);

Modified: trunk/ft2232_spi.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/ft2232_spi.c  2009-11-25 16:41:50 UTC (rev 779)
+++ trunk/ft2232_spi.c  2009-11-25 16:58:17 UTC (rev 780)
@@ -200,14 +200,22 @@
        static unsigned char *buf = NULL;
        /* failed is special. We use bitwise ops, but it is essentially bool. */
        int i = 0, ret = 0, failed = 0;
+       int bufsize;
+       static int oldbufsize = 0;
 
        if (writecnt > 65536 || readcnt > 65536)
                return SPI_INVALID_LENGTH;
 
-       buf = realloc(buf, writecnt + readcnt + 100);
-       if (!buf) {
-               fprintf(stderr, "Out of memory!\n");
-               exit(1); // -1
+       /* buf is not used for the response from the chip. */
+       bufsize = max(writecnt + 9, 260 + 9);
+       /* Never shrink. realloc() calls are expensive. */
+       if (bufsize > oldbufsize) {
+               buf = realloc(buf, bufsize);
+               if (!buf) {
+                       fprintf(stderr, "Out of memory!\n");
+                       exit(1);
+               }
+               oldbufsize = bufsize;
        }
 
        /*


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