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regmap has introduced a maple tree based register cache which makes use of this more advanced data structure which has been added to the kernel recently. Maple trees are much flatter than rbtrees, meaning that they do not grow to such depths when the register map is sparse which makes access a bit more efficient. The maple tree cache type is still a bit of a work in progress but should be effective for some devices already. The wm831x devices have a pretty sparse register map and being always on devices never do cache syncs so don't hit the major current disadvantage so they should be good candiates for using the maple tree cache. Update to do so, there should be little if any visible difference at runtime. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230419-mfd-wm831x-maple-v1-1-e03e39d7bb0b@kernel.org
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