Hi! On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 9:23 PM Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-11-06 at 22:07 +0800, Chuanhong Guo wrote: > > PIO reading mode on this controller is ridiculously inefficient > > (one cmd+addr+dummy sequence reads only one byte) > > This patch adds support for reading from memory-mapped flash area > > which increases reading speed from 1MB/s to 5.6MB/s > > This may not be true for all MTK SoC. Which one are you testing? > I tested it on MT7629. There should be a 5x reading speed increment under DMA or direct read mode than PIO mode because PIO mode needs 30 or 36 clocks for every single byte of data while DMA or direct read only needs 24 or 30 clocks for initial command/address/dummy and every byte of data after that only need 8 clocks. Regards, Chuanhong Guo
