[PATCH v9 00/12] use nonblock mmc requests to minimize latency

[Chris Ball]

Hi Per,

On Fri, Jul 01 2011, Per Forlin wrote:
> How significant is the cache maintenance over head?
> It depends, the eMMC are much faster now
> compared to a few years ago and cache maintenance cost more due to
> multiple cache levels and speculative cache pre-fetch. In relation the
> cost for handling the caches have increased and is now a bottle neck
> dealing with fast eMMC together with DMA.

Thanks very much, I've pushed v9 of the patchset to mmc-next for 3.1
(after fixing some merge conflicts against Adrian Hunter's recent patches
and rewording some of the commit message texts).

- Chris.
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