[RFC PATCH v3 0/3] mtd: nand: vf610_nfc: make use of ->exec_op()

[Boris Brezillon]

On Fri,  9 Feb 2018 00:59:18 +0100
Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch> wrote:

> Third revision of the rework patchset to use exec_op for NXP
> Vybrid (and others) NAND Flash Controller.

Glad to see you didn't give up on that :-). It looks pretty good
already, just have some comments on patch 2, but I think you can drop
the RFC prefix on your next version.

> 
> I now avoided calling back into the stack for the ECC read/
> write pages. This increases speed 4469 KiB/s write speed and
> 13490 KiB/s read speed (v2 was 3495 KiB/s/13490 KiB/s).

Nice improvement on the write path.

> 
> IMHO it start to look better, probably still needs some fine
> tuning. What I don't like too much is that the custom
> read/write page accessors dupplicate some code, maybe this
> could be done somewhat nicer.

Hm, just had a look and I don't find there's that much code duplicated
here, but if you find a solution to share even more code I won't
complain ;-).

> 
> --
> Stefan
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - Separate exec_op() callback addition and removal of old callbacks
> - Push data into regs in one function
> - Readd op parser
> - Implement custom read/write page for hardware ECC
> - Rely on generic ecc.write_page_raw
> - Use nand_read_oob_op instead of nand_read_page_op
> 
> Stefan Agner (3):
>   mtd: nand: vf610_nfc: remove unused function
>   mtd: nand: vf610_nfc: make use of ->exec_op()
>   mtd: nand: vf610_nfc: remove old hooks
> 
>  drivers/mtd/nand/vf610_nfc.c | 493 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 file changed, 239 insertions(+), 254 deletions(-)
> 



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