[U-Boot] [PATCH] mmc:dcache: Cache line size aligned internal MMC buffers

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday, August 22, 2011 03:29:52 Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:35:50 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Friday, August 19, 2011 11:28:18 Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> > > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:57:10 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > On Friday, August 19, 2011 05:25:13 Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> > > > also, what is the code size increase with your patch ?
> > > 
> > > Code size overhead (s5p_goni target):
> > > Without proposed changes: 167928 B (u-boot.bin)
> > > With changes: 168208 B (u-boot.bin)
> > > 
> > > Delta: 280 B
> > 
> > np if it gives significant (more than system noise) speedups.  any
> > details on that ?
> 
> No tests performed yet. The goal of those patches is to preserve the
> MMC subsystem functionality when dcache is enabled (the ext_csd[512]
> corruption is observed with d-cache enabled).

so you're papering over a bug in some controller's cache handling ?  shouldnt 
you fix the controller in question by having it flush its caches ?  aligning 
random buffers to make cache issues "go away" isnt the right way for anything.
-mike
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