Re: [PATCH v8 00/12] use nonblock mmc requests to minimize latency

Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-04T01:07:33Z

On Sun, 3 Jul 2011, Per Forlin wrote:

> On 2 July 2011 21:37, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Saturday 02 July 2011 14:29:38 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >> One other thing to be considered here is whether this idea should be
> >> limited to just MMC or whether it should be extended further, to
> >> move the DMA mapping stuff out of the hot path for other block devices
> >> too.
> >>
> >> There are ARM systems with SATA which do 28MB/s - which could be
> >> improved by this technique.
> >
> > Excellent point. We had discussed SATA items in the context of Linaro
> > work before, and the conclusion was always that we wouldn't need to
> > do any work for it in the common code. I'll make sure that we bring
> > it up at the meeting next month in Cambridge so we can officially
> > assign someone to do this.
> >
> Arnd, do you know if any of the Linaro boards have SATA?

The latest i.mx53 boards have SATA.

Nicolas