On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 05:58:23PM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote: > I got a 2.9G image that I flash via fastboot to the eMMC and that takes > quite a while on my i.MX6Q. > > Instead of fixing my image generation to make proper use of the sparse > format's don't care chunk types to save oneself from writing all these > holes at the end of the partitions, I went the easy route by tweaking the > block layer a bit: > > barebox v2020.02.0: 445s > With first patch: 376s > With second patch: 300s > > Of these 300s, 180s are spent writing zeroes... > > Cheers, > Ahmad Fatoum (2): > usb: gadget: fastboot: call discard_range for sparse files as well > Revert "block: Adjust cache sizes" Applied, thanks Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox