From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from na3sys009aog115.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.238]:49083 "EHLO na3sys009aog115.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932538Ab1KHOOB (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2011 09:14:01 -0500 Received: by mail-bw0-f54.google.com with SMTP id zs8so797016bkb.27 for ; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:13:59 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] wl12xx: improve firmware transfer efficiency From: Luciano Coelho To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1320302683-23403-1-git-send-email-coelho@ti.com> References: <1320302683-23403-1-git-send-email-coelho@ti.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:13:56 +0200 Message-ID: <1320761636.19479.16.camel@cumari> (sfid-20111108_151415_760446_351C8784) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 08:44 +0200, Luciano Coelho wrote: > Hello, > > These patches increase the FW upload efficiency by using multiple SDIO > blocks in a single write. After a lot of measurements, studies and > discussions, I came to the conclusion that 16K chunks is the optimal > size to use. This reduces the upload time by a factor of 0.43 on > wl127x and by a factor of 0.17 on wl128x. In absolute numbers this > means 75ms and 179ms respectively. > > The first patch changes the semantics and name of the blocksize > alignment quirk to negative, to simplify the code in the next two > patches. Applied this series. -- Cheers, Luca.