[U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: improve throughput in the sunxi_mmc driver

Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi michael at amarulasolutions.com
Mon Apr 16 20:37:11 UTC 2018


Hi

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 9:55 PM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard at bootlin.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 07:54:47AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> Hi Jaehoon,
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:18:58PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> > From: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com>
>> >
>> > Throughput tests have shown the sunxi_mmc driver to take over 10s to
>> > read 10MB from a fast eMMC device due to excessive delays in polling
>> > loops.
>> >
>> > This commit restructures the main polling loops to use get_timer(...)
>> > to determine whether a (millisecond) timeout has expired.  We choose
>> > not to use the wait_bit function, as we don't need interruptability
>> > with ctrl-c and have at least one case where two bits (one for an
>> > error condition and another one for completion) need to be read and
>> > using wait_bit would have not added to the clarity.
>> >
>> > The observed speedup in testing on a A31 is greater than 10x (e.g. a
>> > 10MB write decreases from 9.302s to 0.884s).
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at bootlin.com>
>>
>> Any chance we can merge this for the next release?
>
> Ping?
>

Just curios but what is the result if %s/udelay(1000)/udelay(1)/g in the driver

Michael

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