Re: [PATCH] ubi: fastmap: Check each mapping only once

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Greg,

Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2018, 09:09:23 CET schrieb Greg KH:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 11:38:42AM +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> > From: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
> > 
> > [ Upstream commit 34653fd8c46e771585fce5975e4243f8fd401914 ]
> > 
> > This commit got merged along with commit 781932375ffc
> > ("ubi: fastmap: Correctly handle interrupted erasures in EBA") upstream but
> > only the latter has been applied to stable v4.14.54 as commit a23cf10d9abb.
> > This resulted in a performance regression. Startup on i.MX platforms is
> > delayed for up to a few seconds depending on the platform.
> > This fixes ubi fastmap to be of the same performance as it has been before
> > said fastmap changes.
> > 
> > Fixes: a23cf10d9abb ("ubi: fastmap: Correctly handle interrupted erasures in EBA")
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 
> > Richard, although this fixes a major slowdown regression in -stable, do you
> > consider this "stable" too?
> > 
> > This applies and is tested only for the 4.14 stable tree. It seems to be
> > equally relevant for 4.9 and 4.4 though.
> 
> Now queued up for 4.14.y, thanks.

can you *please* slow a little down?

There are times (e.g. when I travel, visit customers on-site, being sick, etc...)
where I don't have the resources to monitor the mailinglists
in detail. Adding patches to stable on shout asks for trouble.

As Sudip points out, this patch needs a further fix patch:
25677478474a ("ubi: Initialize Fastmap checkmapping correctly")

Thanks,
//richard



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