[PATCH v2 3/4] mtd: mxc_nand: fix truncate of unaligned oob copying
Uwe Kleine-König
u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Wed May 13 00:01:40 PDT 2015
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 09:59:22AM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Hi Uwe,
>
> 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).
Best regards
Uwe
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