UBI/UBIFS: dealing with MLC's paired pages

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 30.10.2015 um 12:43 schrieb Artem Bityutskiy:
> On Fri, 2015-10-30 at 10:45 +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
>> Moreover, the standard GC only takes place when you can't find a free
>> LEB anymore, which will probably happen when you reach something
>> close
>> to half the partition size in case of MLC chips (it may be a bit
>> higher if you managed to occupy more than half of each LEB capacity).
>> This means that your FS will become slower when you reach this limit,
>> though maybe this can be addressed by triggering the GC before we run
>> out of free LEBs.
> 
> Right. I'd call it a detail. But the big picture is - if you have to GC
> all the data you write, you write twice. When exactly you do the second
> write is a detail - sometimes it is deferred, it is in background etc,
> sometimes right away - you have to GC older data before being able to
> write new data.

That is a valid concern.
But to me the idea sounds promising and is worth a try.
We will stress test it and figure how much the actual overhead is.

Thanks,
//richard