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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "David Brown" <davidb@davidb.org>, "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	"Alexey Korolev" <akorolev@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Limited support of NAND features in MTD.
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:57:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1198065443.18962.40.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1198061571.13978.733.camel@pmac.infradead.org>

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 10:52 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 10:49 +0000, Alexey Korolev wrote:
> > Hmm I did not heard about this. Could you please give more details on
> > how partial page read can suffer from lack of ECC?
> 
> If your ECC covers the whole page, you have to read the whole page in
> order to check ECC.
> 
> Of course, if you do ECC in sub-pages in the first place, you can read
> only a single ECC block. But you still can't just read arbitrary byte
> ranges.

Sure, but as the guys showed, even this gives substantial JFFS2
performance growth. Providing their figures are correct, subpage reads
are more then worth using.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-19 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-12 11:51 Limited support of NAND features in MTD Alexey Korolev
2007-12-12 13:54 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-12-12 14:36 ` Josh Boyer
2007-12-13 17:47   ` Alexey Korolev
2007-12-18 14:23 ` Jörn Engel
2007-12-18 15:06   ` Alexey Korolev
2007-12-18 15:18     ` Jörn Engel
2007-12-18 15:46       ` Alexey Korolev
2007-12-18 16:07         ` Alexey Korolev
2007-12-18 16:57       ` David Brown
2007-12-18 16:56         ` Jörn Engel
2007-12-18 18:14           ` David Woodhouse
2007-12-19 10:49             ` Alexey Korolev
2007-12-19 10:52               ` David Woodhouse
2007-12-19 11:55                 ` Alexey Korolev
2007-12-19 11:57                 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2007-12-19 12:47                   ` David Woodhouse
2007-12-18 15:48   ` Alexander Belyakov

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