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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Alexey Korolev <akorolev@infradead.org>
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, joern@logfs.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Limited support of NAND features in MTD.
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:23:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071218142335.GD1741@lazybastard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712121107010.19025@pentafluge.infradead.org>

On Wed, 12 December 2007 11:51:40 +0000, Alexey Korolev wrote:
> 
> It is not a secret that current MTD supports very limited set of NAND
> features. Some of missed features like partial page read or cached read
> are able to improve file system performance and its implementation do
> not require s/w redesign. 

What does cached read do?

Another feature that could become useful would be the on-chip copying.
With JFFS2 this is rare, but when doing GC or wear leveling in a fashion
that keeps certain alignments intact, it could improve performance.

Jörn

-- 
The cost of changing business rules is much more expensive for software
than for a secretaty.
-- unknown

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-18 14:29 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 [this message]
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
2007-12-19 12:47                   ` David Woodhouse
2007-12-18 15:48   ` Alexander Belyakov

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