MTD Make select_chip optional?

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Jan 11 11:27:53 EST 2008


On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 08:47 -0500, Zhong Li wrote:
> As the NAND chip capacity grows it seems designs with multiple chips become
> less common than single chip.  Looking at the nand_base.c it seems the
> select_chip gets called a lot.  Wouldn't it make significant performance
> increase if the select_chip call is made optional only for hardware design
> with multiple chips?

In my experience the answer is likely to be 'no'. Feel free to benchmark
it and prove otherwise....

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dwmw2




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