Re: [PATCH] mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: improve imx8mq emmc/sd read performance

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On 2/17/25 11:58, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Hi Luke,
> 
> Am Montag, dem 17.02.2025 um 19:06 +0800 schrieb ziniu.wang_1@xxxxxxx:
>> From: Luke Wang <ziniu.wang_1@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> Compared with kernel 6.1, imx8mq eMMC/SD read performance drops by about
>> 30% with kernel 6.6.
>>
>> The eMMC/SD read thread will be put to sleep until the hardware completes
>> data transfer. Normally, the read thread will be woken up immediately
>> when the data transfer is completed. However, due to a known ic bug, if
>> imx8mq is in cpuidle, it will take a long time (about 500us) to exit
>> cpuidle. As a result, the read thread cannot immediately read the next
>> data block, affecting the read performance.
>>
> Is this really a problem with the upstream kernel? i.MX8MQ upstream
> does not use the deeper PSCI idle states, but only uses WFI, so I doubt
> that upstream is affected by this issue.
> 
> Regards,
> Lucas

Furthermore if that were to be the case the correct solution would probably
to have that reflected in the dts, too?





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