[U-Boot] [PATCH] drivers: block: Allow to cache 4K blocks by default

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 04:42:08PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 20.12.18 09:45, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >On 12/10/2018 01:28 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 05:13:58AM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>>On 12/09/2018 09:55 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >>>>The default settings of the block cache so far only allow to hold single
> >>>>1K blocks. However, larger filesystems tend to use 4K. Failing to cache
> >>>>those massively degrades access performance unless you manually tune the
> >>>>cache first. This is not desirable.
> >>>>
> >>>>Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com>
> >>>
> >>>I submitted the same patch before [1], oddly enough it was not picked by
> >>>Tom.
> >>>
> >>>[1]
> >>>http://u-boot.10912.n7.nabble.com/PATCH-RFC-blk-Increase-cache-element-size-td337975.html
> >>
> >>Based on a quick re-read, I had filed that patch as "Marek says he'll
> >>look into a more complex but general scheme".  If that's not the case
> >>then yes, we can just do that.  Thanks!
> >
> >I still don't see the original patch in u-boot/master
> >
> 
> Ping. Some form of this change should go into the next release, IMHO.

So, this initially tripped over some EFI related issue, which has been
fixed.  But at this point I'm going to pull it in from v2019.04 instead.

-- 
Tom
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