Re: [Patch] fix MTD CFI/LPDDR flash driver huge latency bug

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

Stefani Seibold wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 12.03.2010, 23:38 +0000 schrieb Jamie Lokier:
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:48:57 +0100
> > > Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> wrote:
> > > 
> 
> 
> > > > The patch change all the use of spin_lock operations for xxxx->mutex
> > > > into mutex operations, which is exact what the name says and means.
> > 
> > It would be even better if it also split the critical sections into
> > smaller ones with cond_resched() between, so that non-preemptible
> > kernels benefit too.
> 
> The problem is the memcpy operation which is very slow. A cond_resched
> wouldn't help, since the cpu bus is blocked during the transfer of the
> word.

I mean split the memcpy into multiple smaller memcpys, so that the
total time in each memcpy is limited to something reasonable.

The check in cond_resched() is fast, especially once cached.  memcpy
speed depends a lot on the attached flash and how everything's
configured, varying from 2.5MB/s up to hundreds of MB/s.  So how about
doing cond_resched() every 256 bytes?

-- Jamie