Hi Andrei.. Did you test this patch with ADMA? I wonder that be increased performance or others.. Regards, Jaehoon Chung Andrei Warkentin wrote: > Hi Shawn, > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> pre_req() runs dma_map_sg() post_req() runs dma_unmap_sg. >> If not calling pre_req() before sdhci_request(), request() >> will prepare the cache just like it did it before. >> It is optional to use pre_req() and post_req(). >> >> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> I worked out the patch by referring to Per's patch below. >> >> omap_hsmmc: add support for pre_req and post_req >> >> It adds pre_req and post_req support for sdhci based host drivers to >> work with Per's non-blocking optimization. But I only have imx esdhc >> based hardware to test. Unfortunately, I can not measure the >> performance gain using mmc_test, because the current esdhc driver on >> mainline fails on the test. So I just did a quick test using 'dd', >> but sadly, I did not see noticeable performance gain here. The >> followings are possible reasons I can think of right away. >> >> * The patch did not add pre_req and post_req correctly. Please help >> review to catch the mistakes if any. >> * The imx esdhc driver uses SDHCI_SDMA (max_segs is 1) than SDHCI_ADAM >> (max_segs is 128), due to the broken ADMA support on imx esdhc. So >> can people holding other sdhci based hardware give a try on the >> patch? >> >> Hopefully, I can find some time to have a close look at the mmc_test >> failure and the broken ADMA with imx esdhc. >> > > I'll try it out... > > A > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
