[PATCH v2 3/4] mtd: mxc_nand: fix truncate of unaligned oob copying

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Tue May 12 23:47:34 PDT 2015


Hello Baruch,

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 09:44:04AM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > I thought we could get rid of the memcpy32 variants. Where do we need
> > memcpy32_* where memcpy16 wouldn't work?
> 
> memcpy16 should work, but would take twice as much IO/memory accesses. That 
> would definitely affect performance, as this is the flash data read/write hot 
> path. I didn't test, though.
> 
> Are you sure we want to do that?
no, I'm not sure. But I think it's worth to test how much performance
degrades.

Best regards
Uwe

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