From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Steven Scholz <steven.scholz@imc-berlin.de>
Cc: MTD <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Stopping the GC thread?
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:41:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1055410866.2097.449.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EE8497F.30402@imc-berlin.de>
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 10:35, Steven Scholz wrote:
> But the impact on system performance done by kupdated is not as
> critical as the one that's done by the GC intself, is it?
Assuming your flash supports erase-suspend, no. Certainly it doesn't eat
lots of CPU time like GC can.
> >>I suppose that a few more sectors will be examened and written...
> >>(10ms, 100ms, 1000ms ...???)
> > 'sector'? Read http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/jffs2.pdf
> I meant flash sectors.
Whole erase blocks? God no, we GC one data (or dirent or whatever) node
at a time, which is never going to be larger than about 4KiB.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-12 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-11 16:03 Stopping the GC thread? Steven Scholz
2003-06-11 16:07 ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-11 16:12 ` Steven Scholz
2003-06-11 16:18 ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-11 16:20 ` Steven Scholz
2003-06-11 16:23 ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-12 9:08 ` Steven Scholz
2003-06-12 9:18 ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-12 9:35 ` Steven Scholz
2003-06-12 9:41 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2003-06-12 9:52 ` Jörn Engel
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