[U-Boot] [PATCH 5/8] JFFS2: Optimize building lists during scan

Heiko Schocher invitel heiko.schocher at invitel.hu
Tue Jun 30 11:13:32 CEST 2015


Hello Mark,

please fix Tom rinis mail address globally for your patchset into

Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>

I fixed it for my response manually, thanks!

BTW: You can use patman for creating patches/patchset.
Look into u-boot:tools/patman

Am 29.06.2015 um 07:02 schrieb Mark Tomlinson:
> If the flash is slow, reading less from the flash into buffers makes
> the process faster.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson at alliedtelesis.co.nz>
> ---
>
>   fs/jffs2/jffs2_1pass.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
>   1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>

bye,
Heiko
>
> diff --git a/fs/jffs2/jffs2_1pass.c b/fs/jffs2/jffs2_1pass.c
> index 80210be..10bd7be 100644
> --- a/fs/jffs2/jffs2_1pass.c
> +++ b/fs/jffs2/jffs2_1pass.c
> @@ -1493,7 +1493,7 @@ jffs2_1pass_build_lists(struct part_info * part)
>   	u32 counterF = 0;
>   	u32 counterN = 0;
>   	u32 max_totlen = 0;
> -	u32 buf_size = DEFAULT_EMPTY_SCAN_SIZE;
> +	u32 buf_size;
>   	char *buf;
>
>   	nr_sectors = lldiv(part->size, part->sector_size);
> @@ -1505,7 +1505,7 @@ jffs2_1pass_build_lists(struct part_info * part)
>   	/* if we are building a list we need to refresh the cache. */
>   	jffs_init_1pass_list(part);
>   	pL = (struct b_lists *)part->jffs2_priv;
> -	buf = malloc(buf_size);
> +	buf = malloc(DEFAULT_EMPTY_SCAN_SIZE);
>   	puts ("Scanning JFFS2 FS:   ");
>
>   	/* start at the beginning of the partition */
> @@ -1521,6 +1521,8 @@ jffs2_1pass_build_lists(struct part_info * part)
>   		int ret;
>   #endif
>
> +		/* Set buf_size to maximum length */
> +		buf_size = DEFAULT_EMPTY_SCAN_SIZE;
>   		WATCHDOG_RESET();
>
>   #ifdef CONFIG_JFFS2_SUMMARY
> @@ -1595,6 +1597,10 @@ jffs2_1pass_build_lists(struct part_info * part)
>
>   		ofs += sector_ofs;
>   		prevofs = ofs - 1;
> +		/* Set buf_size down to the minimum size required.
> +		 * This prevents reading in chunks of flash data unnecessarily.
> +		 */
> +		buf_size = sizeof(union jffs2_node_union);
>
>   	scan_more:
>   		while (ofs < sector_ofs + part->sector_size) {
> @@ -1675,13 +1681,18 @@ jffs2_1pass_build_lists(struct part_info * part)
>   			case JFFS2_NODETYPE_INODE:
>   				if (buf_ofs + buf_len < ofs + sizeof(struct
>   							jffs2_raw_inode)) {
> +					buf_len = min_t(uint32_t,
> +							sizeof(struct jffs2_raw_inode),
> +							sector_ofs +
> +							part->sector_size -
> +							ofs);
>   					get_fl_mem((u32)part->offset + ofs,
>   						   buf_len, buf);
>   					buf_ofs = ofs;
>   					node = (void *)buf;
>   				}
> -				if (!inode_crc((struct jffs2_raw_inode *) node))
> -				       break;
> +				if (!inode_crc((struct jffs2_raw_inode *)node))
> +					break;
>
>   				if (insert_node(&pL->frag, (u32) part->offset +
>   						ofs) == NULL) {
> @@ -1698,6 +1709,11 @@ jffs2_1pass_build_lists(struct part_info * part)
>   							((struct
>   							 jffs2_raw_dirent *)
>   							node)->nsize) {
> +					buf_len = min_t(uint32_t,
> +							node->totlen,
> +							sector_ofs +
> +							part->sector_size -
> +							ofs);
>   					get_fl_mem((u32)part->offset + ofs,
>   						   buf_len, buf);
>   					buf_ofs = ofs;
>


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