erase suspend functionality

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Kolakowski, Mikolaj wrote:

> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Anybody can explain how erase suspend should work from the macro
> >> perspective?
> >> I assume that when I delete huge file and JFFS2 starts erasing
> sectors
> >> then when I try to write small amount of data I shouldn't wait until
> all
> >> the sectors on a erase pending list will be erased? The write should
> >> stop erasing. Is it true?
> >
> >Only if the write is going to happen in a sector not scheduled for
> >erase.
> >
> So if there was no clean space to execute the write, then even if the
> driver will erase one sector from the pending list it won't allow write
> until all the sectors from the pending list will be erased? 
> If this is true then what must have happen to do erase suspend?

erase suspend may occur if the sector to be written to is not being 
erased but some other sectors are.


Nicolas