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From: Richard Weinberger <rw@linutronix.de>
To: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, tim.bird@am.sony.com,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	dedekind1@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] UBI checkpointing support
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:21:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F587A28.6080205@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120308090835.032fe13a@pixies.home.jungo.com>

On 08.03.2012 08:08, Shmulik Ladkani wrote:
> But doesn't the CP data (sorry, UBIUBI data :) need to have one
> 'struct ubi_cp_ec' descriptor for each used/free PEB, and as such the
> maximum number of 'ubi_cp_ec' descriptors is total device PEBs, meaning
> CP data is still linearly scaled to device size (with a very small
> multiplier)?
>

It's UBIVIS data. :D

The size of the checkpoint depends on the number of free/used PEBs.
But in most cases the checkpoints fits into one or two PEBs.
Because larger devices have larger erase blocks...

Thanks,
//richard

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From: Richard Weinberger <rw@linutronix.de>
To: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
Cc: dedekind1@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tim.bird@am.sony.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] UBI checkpointing support
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:21:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F587A28.6080205@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120308090835.032fe13a@pixies.home.jungo.com>

On 08.03.2012 08:08, Shmulik Ladkani wrote:
> But doesn't the CP data (sorry, UBIUBI data :) need to have one
> 'struct ubi_cp_ec' descriptor for each used/free PEB, and as such the
> maximum number of 'ubi_cp_ec' descriptors is total device PEBs, meaning
> CP data is still linearly scaled to device size (with a very small
> multiplier)?
>

It's UBIVIS data. :D

The size of the checkpoint depends on the number of free/used PEBs.
But in most cases the checkpoints fits into one or two PEBs.
Because larger devices have larger erase blocks...

Thanks,
//richard

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-08  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-14 20:06 [RFC][PATCH 0/7] UBI checkpointing support Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06 ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/7] MTD: UBI: Add checkpoint on-chip layout Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-07 16:09   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-07 16:09     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-07 21:02     ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-07 22:09       ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-03-07 22:09         ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-03-07 22:23         ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-03-07 22:23           ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-02-14 20:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/7] MTD: UBI: Add checkpoint struct to ubi_device Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/7] MTD: UBI: Export next_sqnum() Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/7] MTD: UBI: Make wl subsystem checkpoint aware Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/7] MTD: UBI: Make process_eb() " Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/7] MTD: UBI: Implement checkpointing support Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-20 16:31   ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-02-20 16:31     ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-02-14 20:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/7] MTD: UBI: wire up checkpointing Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-19 13:57   ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-02-19 13:57     ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-02-19 14:08     ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-19 14:08       ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-19 14:40       ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-02-19 14:40         ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-02-19 15:08         ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-19 15:08           ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-29 11:35 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/7] UBI checkpointing support Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-29 11:35   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-29 11:36   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-29 11:36     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-29 11:40   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-29 12:01     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-29 12:09     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-07 16:04 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-07 16:04   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-07 21:01   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-07 21:01     ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-08 11:22     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-08 11:22       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-07 16:33 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-07 16:33   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-07 21:19   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-07 21:19     ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-08  7:08     ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-03-08  7:08       ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-03-08  9:21       ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2012-03-08  9:21         ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-08 11:58         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-08 11:58           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-08 13:16           ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-03-08 13:16             ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-03-08 11:54     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-08 11:54       ` Artem Bityutskiy

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