[RFC/PATCH 1/5] mtd: ubi: Read disturb infrastructure

[Tanya Brokhman]

On 9/28/2014 3:11 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 09:37 +0300, Tanya Brokhman wrote:
>> The need for performing read disturb is determined according to new
>> statistics collected per eraseblock:
>> - read counter: incremented at each read operation
>>                  reset at each erase
>> - last erase time stamp: updated at each erase
>>
>> This patch adds the infrastructure for the above statistics
>
> Would you please provide some kind of high level description for this
> stuff. What is the problem at hand, how is it solved. Right off-the top
> of my head I have the following comment.
>
> Adding more fields to 'struct ubi_wl_entry' should be well-justified.
> These objects are per-PEB, so there may be really a lot of them, and
> they may consume a lot of memory. Increasing the size of the object may
> be affect the memory consumption a lot.
>
> So I wonder if these read counters solve a big enough problem, so that
> they are worth having in this data structure.
>
> So I am really missing the bigger picture here.
>

Sure, will add a documentation file to describe the need for this and 
the algorithm itself.

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