ECC initialization takes too long. It writes zeroes by portions of 4
byte, it takes more than 6 minutes to initialize 512Mb DIMM module.
Change portion to 1Mb.
before:
[10857.207576] pdc20621_dimm_init: Start ECC initialization
[11235.333118] pdc20621_dimm_init: Finish ECC initialization
after:
[ 1005.126437] pdc20621_dimm_init: Local DIMM Speed = 100
[ 1005.128111] pdc20621_dimm_init: Local DIMM Size = 512MB
[ 1005.133508] Local DIMM ECC Enabled
[ 1005.236482] pdc20621_dimm_init: Start ECC initialization
[ 1031.278098] pdc20621_dimm_init: Finish ECC initialization
Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/ata/sata_sx4.c | 10 ++++++----
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_sx4.c b/drivers/ata/sata_sx4.c
index dce3dcc..d329501 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/sata_sx4.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/sata_sx4.c
@@ -1208,7 +1208,6 @@ static unsigned int pdc20621_dimm_init(struct ata_host *host)
{
int speed, size, length;
u32 addr, spd0, pci_status;
- u32 tmp = 0;
u32 time_period = 0;
u32 tcount = 0;
u32 ticks = 0;
@@ -1323,14 +1322,17 @@ static unsigned int pdc20621_dimm_init(struct ata_host *host)
pdc20621_i2c_read(host, PDC_DIMM0_SPD_DEV_ADDRESS,
PDC_DIMM_SPD_TYPE, &spd0);
if (spd0 == 0x02) {
+ void *buf;
VPRINTK("Start ECC initialization\n");
addr = 0;
length = size * 1024 * 1024;
+ buf = kzalloc(PDC_20621_PAGE_SIZE * 32, GFP_KERNEL);
while (addr < length) {
- pdc20621_put_to_dimm(host, (void *) &tmp, addr,
- sizeof(u32));
- addr += sizeof(u32);
+ pdc20621_put_to_dimm(host, buf, addr,
+ PDC_20621_PAGE_SIZE * 32);
+ addr += PDC_20621_PAGE_SIZE * 32;
}
+ kfree(buf);
VPRINTK("Finish ECC initialization\n");
}
return 0;
--
1.6.2.2
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