[PATCH] mmc: sdhci: add support for pre_req and post_req

[Andrei Warkentin]

Hi Shawn,

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org> wrote:
> pre_req() runs dma_map_sg() post_req() runs dma_unmap_sg.
> If not calling pre_req() before sdhci_request(), request()
> will prepare the cache just like it did it before.
> It is optional to use pre_req() and post_req().
>
> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org>
> ---
> I worked out the patch by referring to Per's patch below.
>
>  omap_hsmmc: add support for pre_req and post_req
>
> It adds pre_req and post_req support for sdhci based host drivers to
> work with Per's non-blocking optimization.  But I only have imx esdhc
> based hardware to test.  Unfortunately, I can not measure the
> performance gain using mmc_test, because the current esdhc driver on
> mainline fails on the test.  So I just did a quick test using 'dd',
> but sadly, I did not see noticeable performance gain here.  The
> followings are possible reasons I can think of right away.
>
> * The patch did not add pre_req and post_req correctly.  Please help
>  review to catch the mistakes if any.
> * The imx esdhc driver uses SDHCI_SDMA (max_segs is 1) than SDHCI_ADAM
>  (max_segs is 128), due to the broken ADMA support on imx esdhc.  So
>  can people holding other sdhci based hardware give a try on the
>  patch?
>
> Hopefully, I can find some time to have a close look at the mmc_test
> failure and the broken ADMA with imx esdhc.
>

I'll try it out...

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