Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] Implement exec_op for GPMI nand driver

[Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sascha,

Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Thu, 25 Apr 2019
14:56:29 +0200:

> The GPMI nand driver suffers from very poor performance. The read
> performance can be roughly doubled with two steps: First is to use
> runtime PM for controlling the clocks which prevents the driver from
> spending a good amount of time en/disabling the clocks. The second step
> is to implement exec_op which allows us to combine the steps necessary
> to do a page read into a single DMA transaction.
> 
> I would prefer to let this go through the mtd tree with the ack of the
> dmaengine maintainers
> 
> changes since v2:
> 
> - s/dma/dmaengine in dmaengine specific patches
> - s/nand/NAND/
> - Add reviewed-by Miquel
> - Add Acked-by Vinod
> 
> changes since v1:
> 
> - tested and fixed on i.MX28
> - remove debugging leftover
> - Add mxs dma specific header files to put the oddities of the mxs dma
>   driver in
> - Turn off BCH engine interrupts when not needed as they result in
>   calling complete() on an uninitialized completion. This crashes
>   on i.MX28
> 
> Sascha Hauer (14):
>   mtd: rawnand: export NAND operation tracer
>   mtd: rawnand: fsmc: Use nand_op_trace for operation tracing
>   mtd: rawnand: gpmi: move all driver code into single file
>   mtd: rawnand: gpmi: remove unused variable
>   mtd: rawnand: gpmi: Remove unnecessary variables
>   mtd: rawnand: gpmi: read buf in nand_read_page_op
>   mtd: rawnand: gpmi: remove unused parameters
>   mtd: rawnand: gpmi: Drop unnecessary restoring of previous chipselection
>   mtd: rawnand: gpmi: use runtime PM to manage clocks
>   dmaengine: mxs: Drop unnecessary flag
>   mtd: rawnand: gpmi: drop unnecessary flag
>   dmaengine: mxs: Add header file to be shared with gpmi nand driver
>   dmaengine: mxs: rename custom flag
>   mtd: rawnand: gpmi: Implement exec_op
> 
>  drivers/dma/mxs-dma.c                      |   25 +-
>  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/fsmc_nand.c           |   19 +-
>  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/gpmi-nand/Makefile    |    1 -
>  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/gpmi-nand/gpmi-lib.c  |  936 -----------
>  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c | 1687 ++++++++++++++------
>  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.h |   64 +-
>  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_base.c           |   30 +-
>  include/linux/dma/mxs-dma.h                |   24 +
>  include/linux/mtd/rawnand.h                |   37 +
>  9 files changed, 1264 insertions(+), 1559 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/mtd/nand/raw/gpmi-nand/gpmi-lib.c
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/dma/mxs-dma.h
> 

Please ignore the previous message telling the patch was applied, I
have to manually fix all the conflicts, I canceled the operation: would
you mind rebasing on v5.2-rc1 and respin?


Thanks and sorry for the trouble,
Miquèl

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