[PATCH 07/13] uimage: improve transfer speed

[Sascha Hauer]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 12:01:21AM +0200, Vicente wrote:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vicente <vicencb at gmail.com>

Do you have some numbers which cases this speeds up and how much?

Sascha

> ---
>  common/uimage.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/uimage.c b/common/uimage.c
> index c72db41..18c5b01 100644
> --- a/common/uimage.c
> +++ b/common/uimage.c
> @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
>  #include <rtc.h>
>  #include <filetype.h>
>  #include <memory.h>
> +#include <linux/stat.h>
> +#include <sizes.h>
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_UIMAGE_MULTI
>  static inline int uimage_is_multi_image(struct uimage_handle *handle)
> @@ -380,15 +382,35 @@ struct resource *file_to_sdram(const char *filename, unsigned long adr)
>  	struct resource *res;
>  	size_t size = BUFSIZ;
>  	size_t ofs = 0;
> +	size_t now;
>  	int fd;
> +	struct stat s;
>  
>  	fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY);
>  	if (fd < 0)
>  		return NULL;
>  
> -	while (1) {
> -		size_t now;
> +	/* TODO: use fstat(fd, &s) when implemented and avoid reopening file */
> +	if (stat(filename, &s) == 0 && s.st_size <= SZ_1G) {
> +		/*
> +		 * As the file size is known we can read it at once and improve
> +		 * transfer speed.
> +		 */
> +		res = request_sdram_region("image", adr, s.st_size);
> +		if (!res) {
> +			printf("unable to request SDRAM 0x%08lx-0x%08lx\n",
> +				adr, adr + s.st_size - 1);
> +			goto out;
> +		}
>  
> +		now = read_full(fd, (void *)(res->start), s.st_size);
> +		if (now < s.st_size) {
> +			release_sdram_region(res);
> +			res = NULL;
> +		}
> +		goto out;
> +	}
> +	while (1) {
>  		res = request_sdram_region("image", adr, size);
>  		if (!res) {
>  			printf("unable to request SDRAM 0x%08lx-0x%08lx\n",
> -- 
> 1.7.12.2
> 
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