[U-Boot] [RFC][PATCH] block: Enable block cache by default

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Sat May 19 21:39:38 UTC 2018


On 05/19/2018 10:50 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 08:20:30PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 05/19/2018 04:36 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>> On 18 May 2018 at 03:22, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The recent ext4 cache discussion would indicate that the block cache
>>>> is a desired feature, yet hidden and not enabled most of the time.
>>>> Enable the block cache by default since it provides significant block
>>>> device access performance improvement and if there are some users who
>>>> cannot enable it ie. due to size limitations, those should disable it
>>>> explicitly in their board config.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
>>>> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>>>> Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com>
>>>> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/block/Kconfig | 2 +-
>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>>
>> I was hoping to get some feedback ?
> 
> So, as I was asking on IRC, can you show the code paths where this gets
> used outside of CONFIG_BLK and then really ext4/fat/btrfs as I do in my
> patch?

Can you summarize that discussion for everyone who was not on IRC at
that point ?

-- 
Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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