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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>
Cc: AMIT KUMARSHARMA <amitsharma.9@samsung.com>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>,
	Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>,
	Brijesh Singh <brij.singh@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: Regarding UBI scalability
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:46:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1234169182.17790.92.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9c9fda240902080231r51c4bcf3o37c0044bf9d924ee@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 19:31 +0900, Kyungmin Park wrote:
> One more requested feature.
> How about to scan ubi image and bad block table at simultaneously?
> Now there's two full device scan, bbt and ubi at booting time.
> As internal LEA mapping layout, how about to add bbt layout?
> 
> It's also helpful to MLC since MLC doesn't have read oob so it calls
> page read command to build bbt.
> As you know it takes long time.
> 
> I'm not sure if internal LEA maping is supported, it's meaningful work or not.
> 
> How do you think?

Well, doing scanning twice is not very good indeed. I guess what you
could do is to make MTD avoid scanning and building the bad block
table at all and build it lazily. But then you need 2 bits per
eraseblock, not just one. IOW, sure, it is possible to optimize this.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-09  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <7824366.270131233573513030.JavaMail.weblogic@epml10>
2009-02-04  9:47 ` Regarding UBI scalability Adrian Hunter
2009-02-05  9:40   ` Brijesh Singh
2009-02-08  9:48     ` Corentin Chary
2009-02-08 10:31       ` Kyungmin Park
2009-02-09  8:46         ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2009-01-30 12:45 BRIJESH SINGH
2009-02-02  9:31 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-02-02 10:17   ` Amit Kumar Sharma
2009-02-02 11:07     ` Adrian Hunter
2009-02-02 10:57       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-02-02 11:18         ` Adrian Hunter
2009-02-02 20:07           ` Jamie Lokier
2009-02-02 23:44           ` Corentin Chary
2009-02-03 10:35             ` Brijesh Singh
2009-02-03 10:48               ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-02-03 11:27                 ` Enrico Scholz
2009-02-04  7:41                   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-02-04  9:29               ` Adrian Hunter
2009-02-05  9:37                 ` Brijesh Singh
2009-02-05 11:17                   ` Adrian Hunter
2009-02-11  7:50                     ` Brijesh Singh
2009-02-03 10:46             ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-02-03 11:13               ` Corentin Chary
2009-02-03 11:51                 ` Brijesh Singh
2009-02-04  7:45                 ` Artem Bityutskiy

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