Re: [PATCH 0/2] MMC discard support (was [PATCH 0/7] Discard requests, v2)

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Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:59:11 +0900
> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> >
>> > I have tried those two and others, and I cannot see any noticeable
>> > difference in performance. Please perform your own tests though as I
>> > might have overlooked something.
>> 
>> I see, sounds like erase commands of sd/mmc was ignored.
>
> If only. :)

Yes :)

> The device does take some time to perform the command, and the data is
> indeed gone after the command has completed. So there is no doubt that
> the sector gets erased.
>
> It might simply be that so few (no?) SD/MMC readers actually implement
> these commands, so the card vendors haven't bothered implementing any
> decent handling of them.

I see. Umm... Or. The pre-erased card has no improvement. So, the card
may be doing wear-leveling (ERASE_BLK_EN=1 may imply?), and write
bandwidth is slow enough, it might hide the slowness of erase well...
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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