Hi All, This patch series refreshes the older patch series sent a while ago by Asutosh Das[1]. Current set of patch series is only introducing the basic CMDQ driver to get more review comments. Based on the reviews, will add other features as well to the patch list. Below paras describes about the CMDQ feature and a brief implementaion details of HW CMDQ :- In this patch series, we propose a method to add support for Command Queueing(CQ) feature added to eMMC-5.1 specification. This feature includes new commands for issuing tasks to the device and orders the execution of tasks to the device. It also has task management functions. Working of CQ with HW CQ support :- Both card and controller(HC) maintains a queue where tasks can be queued for execution. SW pulls the requests from block layer, prepares request's task/transfer descriptors and issues (by ringing the doorbell) it to CMDQ HC. CMDQ HC then queues this task to the card queue (can queue while data transfer is in progress) by preparing and sending CMD44 followed by CMD45. While SW driver can issues the tasks asynchronously to CMDQ HC, until the queue is full, HC can in parallel, send SQS (send queue status) to card to read QSR (queue status register), to know which tasks are ready for execution in card. Based on the QSR, HC can send CMD46/47 (read/write) for the task which was ready for execution in card. Main advantage of CQ comes for Random requests and thus we see that in below performance table that it's mainly the random requests that gets most of the benefit. Brief on implementation details :- The initialization of CQ is decided based on the underlying driver capability and the capability advertised by the card through ext_csd. In order to support queueing of multiple requests, we have added a new issue function to mmc-queue. This selectively pulls the requests and prepares and issues it to the underlying driver. We have used the inherent tagging mechanism of kernel block layer to keep track and map tags to the slots of underlying driver. The current design doesn't block for the request to complete. We have separated the issuing and completion path of the request and tracking is done using the tag assigned to the request. We have introduced a number of APIs to mmc block layer to facilitate servicing of requests. The completion of requests is handled in a softirq registered with the kernel block layer during initialization. A new layer has been introduced to serve the CQ compliant drivers. This layer (cq_hci) has all the standard functionality implemented. It also has necessary hooks for convenience of platform drivers. Performance Data :- |------------------------------------ |Androbench | CQ | Legacy | |---------------|-------|----------| |Seq Read(MBps) | 227.41| 216.97 | |---------------|-------|----------| |Seq Write(MBps)| 56.6 | 56.44 | |---------------|-------|----------| |Rand.Read(IOPs)| 7144 | 4554 | |---------------|-------|----------| |Rand.Write(IOPS| 2374 | 1629 | |----------------------------------| Patch Description in brief:- Patch 1/10 - Reads ext_csd to know whether the card supports CMDQ or not. Patch 2/10 - Adds support for a seperate queue and mmc_cmdq_thread for pulling and issuing the requests. Since this patch series adds a seperate queue for HW CMDQ support, this should not conflict with SW CMDQ series, except in places where we are (initializing/enabling? and) defining CMDQ definitions for card. Patch 3/10 - Adds initialization and enabling of CMDQ in card and controller if both supports it. Patch 4-5,8,9/10 - Add read/write/flush/halt support to CMDQ Patch 6/10 - This change does not relate to CMDQ in general, but only w.r.t. SDMA & ADMA. Patch 7/10 - Add CMDQ_HCI file for host controllers that support CMDQ. Patch 10/10 - Add CQ support to sdhci. [1]:- http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-arm-msm/msg12692.html Changes in RFCv2: - Addressed comments from Shawn. Asutosh Das (7): mmc: core: Add support to read command queue parameters mmc: queue: initialization of command queue mmc: core: Add command queue initialzation support mmc: core: add flush request support to command queue mmc: core: Add halt support mmc: cmdq-host: add halt support to command queue host mmc: sdhci: add command queue support to sdhci Subhash Jadavani (1): mmc: host: sdhci: don't set SDMA buffer boundary in ADMA mode Venkat Gopalakrishnan (2): mmc: card: add read/write support in command queue mode mmc: cmdq: support for command queue enabled host drivers/mmc/card/block.c | 315 ++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/mmc/card/queue.c | 188 ++++++++++++- drivers/mmc/card/queue.h | 10 +- drivers/mmc/core/core.c | 98 +++++++ drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c | 65 +++++ drivers/mmc/core/mmc_ops.c | 47 +++- drivers/mmc/host/Kconfig | 13 + drivers/mmc/host/Makefile | 1 + drivers/mmc/host/cmdq_hci.c | 671 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/mmc/host/cmdq_hci.h | 207 ++++++++++++++ drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c | 169 ++++++++++- drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.h | 6 + include/linux/mmc/card.h | 11 +- include/linux/mmc/core.h | 13 + include/linux/mmc/host.h | 75 +++++ include/linux/mmc/mmc.h | 3 + 16 files changed, 1868 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/mmc/host/cmdq_hci.c create mode 100644 drivers/mmc/host/cmdq_hci.h -- The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html