Re: [PATCH 00/18] mmc: meson-gx: code and performance improvements

[Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>]

Hi Heiner,

Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> writes:

> This patch series includes several improvements and boosted the
> read performance from 13 MB/s to 32 MB/s (at 60MHz clock rate)
> on a Odroid C2 with a 128GB eMMC module.
>
> Higher frequencies needed tuning in my case. With some hacked
> test tuning I reached 52 MB/s at 200MHz.
> With a 8GB card 200MHz were stable out of the box, but with
> less performacne.

Thanks for the series and improvements.  I'm not very familiar with MMC,
so I've been hoping someone would come along and improve this driver.  I
really appreciate it.

There are a few comments I've made on individual patches in the series.

It will probably be helpful to the MMC maintainers if you separate the
series into:

- cleanups (non-functional changes)
- fixes: things that fix actual bugs (not sure there are any in this
  series)

followed by a series that does the functional changes.

Also, can I recommend that you use git-format-patch and git-send-email
to export and email your patches?  If you use git-send-email, all of the
individual patches will be sent as a reply to the cover-letter, making
the threading work better and generally make readers/reviewers happier.

Thanks again for the great work,

Kevin

> Heiner Kallweit (18):
>   mmc: meson-gx: set segment host parameters
>   mmc: meson-gx: remove code for unsupported CMD23
>   mmc: meson-gx: explicitely call stop command for multi-block commands only
>   mmc: meson-gx: improve meson_mmc_start_cmd
>   mmc: meson-gx: eliminate struct sd_emmc_data
>   mmc: meson-gx: simplify bounce buffer setting in meson_mmc_start_cmd
>   mmc: meson-gx: check return value of sg_copy_[from,to]_buffer
>   mmc: meson-gx: make two functions return void
>   mmc: meson-gx: change interrupt name
>   mmc: meson-gx: remove unused members irq, ocr_mask from struct meson_host
>   mmc: meson-gx: remove unneeded variable in meson_mmc_clk_init
>   mmc: meson-gx: remove member parent_mux from struct meson_host
>   mmc: meson-gx: remove unneeded meson_mmc_clk_set in meson_mmc_clk_init
>   mmc: meson-gx: remove unneeded devm_kstrdup in meson_mmc_clk_init
>   mmc: meson-gx: improve initial configuration
>   mmc: meson-gx: improve response reading and sending stop command
>   mmc: meson-gx: remove member mrq from struct meson_host
>   mmc: meson-gx: move handling of one case from threaded handler to main irq
>
>  drivers/mmc/host/meson-gx-mmc.c | 241 ++++++++++++++++------------------------
>  1 file changed, 97 insertions(+), 144 deletions(-)