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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au>
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	Alexey Korolev <akorolev@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] NAND subpage read feature. Take 2.
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 12:47:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080506104728.GA25761@logfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080506094249.GA23685@cloud.net.au>

On Tue, 6 May 2008 19:42:49 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> It makes sense to keep data that you had to read anyway, but with the
> subpage read patch that's less than a whole page.

Then make the granularity a subpage.

> I agree. So are we talking about caching of data which we've read
> anyway, or speculative reads? Because reading more than the user
> requested is speculation afaict. If LogFS (for example) reads a whole 
> page even when it doesn't need it, that will degrade performance in some
> cases.

Sure, that's true for any caching.  Unless you have some locality of
access, it won't help.  Ubi scan is the perfect counter-example with
zero locality, both temporal and spacial.

Jörn

-- 
Do not stop an army on its way home.
-- Sun Tzu

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-06 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-30 12:13 [PATCH][RFC] NAND subpage read feature. Take 2 Alexey Korolev
2008-05-01  4:40 ` Hamish Moffatt
2008-05-01  5:34   ` MTD PARTITION Aneesh
2008-05-14 17:13   ` [PATCH][RFC] NAND subpage read feature. Take 2 Alexey Korolev
2008-05-01 20:25 ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-04  8:46   ` Alexander Belyakov
2008-05-05  7:37     ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-05 12:10       ` Alexander Belyakov
2008-05-05 15:39         ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-06  9:29           ` Alexander Belyakov
2008-05-08 15:30             ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-08 15:33               ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-05-08 15:38                 ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-06  0:15       ` Hamish Moffatt
2008-05-06  6:15         ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-06  9:42           ` Hamish Moffatt
2008-05-06 10:47             ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2008-05-14 17:34   ` Alexey Korolev

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