Re: [PATCH] mtd: revert "spi-nor: intel: provide a range for poll_timout"

Alexander Sverdlin
2020-07-23T09:06:06Z

Hello Tudor,

On 22/07/2020 19:03, Tudor.Ambarus@microchip.com wrote:
> On 7/22/20 7:37 PM, Alexander Sverdlin wrote:

[...]

>> I've performed my testing as well and got the following results:
>>
>> Vanilla Linux 4.9 (i.e. before the introduction of the offending
>> patch):
>>
>> dd if=/dev/flash/by-name/XXX of=/dev/null bs=4k
>> 1280+0 records in
>> 1280+0 records out
>> 5242880 bytes (5.2 MB, 5.0 MiB) copied, 3.91981 s, 1.3 MB/s
>>
>> Vanilla 4.19 (i.e. with offending patch):
>>
>> dd if=/dev/flash/by-name/XXX of=/dev/null bs=4k
>> 1280+0 records in
>> 1280+0 records out
>> 5242880 bytes (5.2 MB, 5.0 MiB) copied, 6.70891 s, 781 kB/s
>>
>> 4.19 + revert:
>>
>> dd if=/dev/flash/by-name/XXX of=/dev/null bs=4k
>> 1280+0 records in
>> 1280+0 records out
>> 5242880 bytes (5.2 MB, 5.0 MiB) copied, 3.90503 s, 1.3 MB/s
>>
>> Therefore it looks good from my PoV:
>>
>> Tested-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com>

[...]

> would you put 10 us here
>>> INTEL_SPI_TIMEOUT * 1000);
>>> }
>>>
>>> @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static int intel_spi_wait_sw_busy(struct intel_spi *ispi)
>>> u32 val;
>>>
>>> return readl_poll_timeout(ispi->sregs + SSFSTS_CTL, val,
>>> - !(val & SSFSTS_CTL_SCIP), 40,
>>> + !(val & SSFSTS_CTL_SCIP), 0,
>
> also here, and re-do a test? I'm curios if the performance will be
> as it was before.

with 10us it looks like this:

dd if=/dev/flash/by-name/... of=/dev/null bs=4k
1280+0 records in
1280+0 records out
5242880 bytes (5.2 MB, 5.0 MiB) copied, 4.33816 s, 1.2 MB/s

Which means, there is a performance regression and it would depend on
the test case, how bad it will be...

--
Best regards,
Alexander Sverdlin.