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

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Wed May 13 00:12:01 PDT 2015


Hi Uwe,

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 09:01:40AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 09:59:22AM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 08:47:34AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > That will have to wait a few weeks as I don't have the hardware handy at the 
> > moment.
> In the hope the test will not be forgotten I consider it ok to take this
> series without the test (with keeping the memcpy32 that is).

Agreed.

I'll respin this series with the ecc_8bit_layout name change as you suggested.

May I have your Reviewed-by/Acked-by for the patches you are not the author 
of?

baruch

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