Re: [PATCH] i2c: designware: size the RX FIFO threshold to the queued transfer

[Navon John Lukose]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 02:05:26PM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> I'm slightly worried about the latency increase here and the fact that
> HIDIOCGINPUT is pretty much same as HID_REQ_GET_REPORT so it's not only
> hidraw that is affected but everything else using HID_REQ_GET_REPORT as
> well.

You are right, it is every HID_REQ_GET_REPORT user, not just hidraw.

The main motivation for this patch was cutting the wakeups from the
interrupts, and I should have made that clearer. The /dev/cpu_dma_latency
line was just to measure where the extra latency comes from.

What the wakeups cost, measured with a 21-byte HID GET_REPORT at 142 Hz
pinned to one CPU, display off, 32 reps per arm in randomized order:

                        psys W
    idle             1.87 +/- 0.28
    patched          2.53 +/- 0.17
    stock            4.11 +/- 0.44

Against the idle floor the polling costs 2.24 W without the patch and
0.66 W with it. Paired saving 1.58 W, 95% CI [1.42, 1.75].

So the added exit latency is the package idling deeper than it can when
the controller interrupts once per received byte.