[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] MMC Multi-block Support

[Paulraj, Sandeep]

> 
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:32 PM, John Rigby <jcrigby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Alagu,
> >
> > This never made it into Andy's tree nor upstream.  Could you submit a
> > new patch to current upstream with the config option removed as Andy
> > said he did back in May?  Maybe we can get it commited via some other
> > maintainer.  Steve Sakoman seems to have done some MMC work lately.
> 
> I've done some testing with this patch on OMAP3 and OMAP4, in the
> "always enabled" version.
> 
> I compared the old legacy mmc driver vs the new generic mmc driver vs
> new generic mmc driver with multiblock read support added.
> 
> The good news is that the generic mmc driver for OMAP is almost twice
> as fast as the old legacy driver.  These patches should be in the next
> u-boot-ti pull request and so will be in mainline shortly.
> 
> The bad news is that multiblock reads seem to make no difference :-(
> 
> For reading a 45MB file from an ext3 partition using ext2load I get:
> 
> legacy:              62 seconds
> generic:             35 seconds
> generic w/ multi: 35 seconds
> 
> I'm happy to resubmit the multi-block read patch because it does seem
> to work properly and may even yield improvements on other
> architectures.
> 
> Would you like me to do that?
> 
> Steve

Yes please submit updated patches if you have them in your tree. Others might want to participate in a new round of review.

Sandeep