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From: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
To: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
	dedekind1@gmail.com, Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, computersforpeace@gmail.com,
	dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] About the SLC/MLC
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 10:32:06 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131019133205.GD2470@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130827033020.GA2182@gmail.com>

Hi Huang,

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:30:22PM -0400, Huang Shijie wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 02:41:53PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:36:38 +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> > > In current mtd code, the MTD_NANDFLASH is used to represent both the
> > > SLC nand MLC(including the TLC). But we already have the MTD_MLCNANDFLASH
> > > to stand for the MLC. What is worse is that the JFFS2 may run on the MLC
> > > nand with current code. For the reason of READ/WRITE disturbance, the JFFS2
> > > should runs on the SLC only,
> > 
> > Pardon the probably very silly question, but would you mind giving more
> > details about why JFFS2 is not appropriate on MLC flashes? Is there
> > anything that UBI/UBIFS does that JFFS2 isn't doing to take into
> > account read/write disturbance?
> I try to explain it.
> 
> For the UBIFS, it will writes the page(including the oob) only one time;
> but for jffs2, it may writes the page(including the oob) twice, one for the
> marker, one for the real data. 
> 

It seems I overlooked this when I first read it.

Do you mean that JFFS2 will write twice: one write to the spare region,
one write in the data region, with no erase between those two?

I've looked at the JFFS2 code, but it's not trivial to follow :)
-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-19 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-26  9:36 [PATCH v3 00/10] About the SLC/MLC Huang Shijie
2013-08-26  9:36 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] mtd: nand: rename the cellinfo to bits_per_cell Huang Shijie
2013-08-27 17:10   ` Vikram Narayanan
2013-08-28  2:23     ` Huang Shijie
2013-08-28  2:42     ` Brian Norris
2013-08-28  2:45       ` Huang Shijie
2013-08-28  2:48         ` Brian Norris
2013-08-28  2:53           ` Huang Shijie
2013-08-28  3:02             ` Brian Norris
2013-08-28  3:09               ` Huang Shijie
2013-08-26  9:36 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] mtd: set the cell information for ONFI nand Huang Shijie
2013-08-26  9:36 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] mtd: print out the cell information for nand chip Huang Shijie
2013-08-26  9:36 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] mtd: gpmi: rewrite the gpmi_ecc_write_oob() to support the jffs2 Huang Shijie
2013-08-26  9:36 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] mtd: add more comment for MTD_NANDFLASH/MTD_MLCNANDFLASH Huang Shijie
2013-08-26  9:36 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] mtd: fix the wrong mtd->type for nand chip Huang Shijie
2013-08-28  3:08   ` Brian Norris
2013-08-28  6:59     ` Huang Shijie
2013-08-28  7:28       ` Brian Norris
2013-08-28  7:50         ` Huang Shijie
2013-08-28  9:26         ` Huang Shijie
2013-08-29  1:24         ` Huang Shijie
2013-08-29  5:05           ` Brian Norris
2013-08-29  5:34             ` Huang Shijie
2013-08-29  5:50               ` Huang Shijie
2013-09-04 18:51                 ` Brian Norris
     [not found]                   ` <52280278.6020007@freescale.com>
2013-09-17  0:13                     ` Brian Norris
2013-08-26  9:36 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] jffs2: do not support the MLC nand Huang Shijie
2013-08-26  9:36 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] mtd: add MTD_MLCNANDFLASH case for mtd_type_show() Huang Shijie
2013-08-26  9:36 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] mtd: add a helper to detect the nand type Huang Shijie
2013-09-17  0:27   ` Brian Norris
2013-08-26  9:36 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] mtd: mtd-abi: " Huang Shijie
2013-08-26 12:41 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] About the SLC/MLC Thomas Petazzoni
2013-08-27  3:30   ` Huang Shijie
2013-10-19 13:32     ` Ezequiel Garcia [this message]
2013-10-21  2:58       ` Huang Shijie
2013-10-22  5:11     ` Gupta, Pekon
2013-10-30 22:02       ` Brian Norris

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