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From: Apelete Seketeli <apelete@seketeli.net>
To: Chris Ball <chris@printf.net>
Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
	H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
	Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>,
	Alex Smith <alex.smith@imgtec.com>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>,
	linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] mmc: jz4740: prepare next dma transfer in parallel with current transfer
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 22:02:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140812200228.GB23978@tao> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86y4ut60ha.fsf@void.printf.net>

Hi Chris,

On Tue, Aug-12-2014 at 07:12:33 PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi Apelete,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 21 2014, Apelete Seketeli wrote:
> > It should help reduce the impact of DMA preparation overhead on the SD
> > card performance.
> 
> Did you do any benchmarking to check that this is true?  (If so, it'd
> be good to note what performance change you saw in the commit message.)

I actually did a few quick benchmarks, posted the results in the cover
letter: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/21/11.
As you can see the improvement is measurable, although not significant
with zcat.

Cheers.
-- 
        Apelete

      reply	other threads:[~2014-08-12 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-21  4:37 [PATCH v6 0/2] Use DMA for data transfers in JZ4740 MMC driver Apelete Seketeli
2014-07-21  4:37 ` [PATCH v6 1/2] mmc: jz4740: add dma infrastructure for data transfers Apelete Seketeli
2014-08-12 16:21   ` Ulf Hansson
2014-07-21  4:37 ` [PATCH v6 2/2] mmc: jz4740: prepare next dma transfer in parallel with current transfer Apelete Seketeli
2014-08-12 16:22   ` Ulf Hansson
2014-08-12 18:10     ` Apelete Seketeli
2014-08-12 20:15       ` Ulf Hansson
2014-08-12 18:12   ` Chris Ball
2014-08-12 20:02     ` Apelete Seketeli [this message]

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