Re: Benchmarking: POP flash vs. MMC?

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On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, David Brownell wrote:

> I'd think the first thing to check is two linux-omap PIO flavors:
> with vs without the prefetch/postwrite engine.  Benchmarking DMA
> would be a separate issue.  Ditto comparing kernels with/without
> write posting.

Makes sense to me.  FIFO-less GPMC PIO should be full of fail.

> Puzzle:  get a dma_copypage() to work faster than copy_page().
> Or a dma_clear_page() faster than clear_page().  Not easy...

Doing it via the DMA engine may save power, since MPU can sleep.


- Paul
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