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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Andre Puschmann <andre.puschmann@imms.de>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: flash read performance
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:03:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081029120312.GA846@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081029114256.GA2239@yoda.jdub.homelinux.org>

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:14:05AM +0100, Andre Puschmann wrote:
> >Hi list,
> >
> >I am currently trying to improve the flash read performance of my 
> >platform. It's a gumstix verdex board with a pxa270 running at 400MHz. 
> >My flash is a 16MB NOR Intel StrataFlash P30 (128P30T) and it's 
> >operating in the _normal_ asynchronous mode. In my opinion the read 
> >performance is very poor, only around 1.2 to 1.4 MB/s depending on the 
> >blocksize. I think it should be possible to get much higher transfer rates.
> 
> Why do you think that?

Take a look at:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-embedded&m=122125638419881&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-embedded&m=122149685932525&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-embedded&m=122185227511786&w=2

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-29 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-28 10:14 flash read performance Andre Puschmann
2008-10-29 11:42 ` Josh Boyer
2008-10-29 12:03   ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2008-10-29 15:52   ` Andre Puschmann
2008-10-30  8:33     ` Arnaud Mouiche
2008-10-30  9:52       ` Andre Puschmann
2008-10-30 10:06         ` Arnaud Mouiche
2008-11-03 14:23           ` Andre Puschmann
2008-11-04  8:30             ` Andre Puschmann
2008-11-04 11:42             ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-04 14:31               ` Andre Puschman
2008-11-07  2:41                 ` Trent Piepho
2008-11-07  4:02                   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-07  5:36                     ` Trent Piepho
2008-11-07  5:57                       ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-07  9:47                   ` Andre Puschmann
2008-11-08  5:28                     ` Trent Piepho
2008-11-11 13:28                       ` Andre Puschmann
2008-11-15  2:02                         ` Trent Piepho

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