From: Christian Speich <c.speich@avm.de>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
"Bin Meng" <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>,
qemu-block@nongnu.org, "Christian Speich" <c.speich@avm.de>
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] hw/sd: Improve performance of read/write/erase
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:34:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250919-sdcard-performance-b4-v1-0-e1037e481a19@avm.de> (raw)
This patch series improves the performance of read/write/erase operations
on sdcards.
This is done by increasing the maximum buffer size that is worked on.
From 1 byte (master) to 512 bytes (first commit) to larger than 512
(adma commit).
Testing on my system with fio I see the following rough performance
values in MiB/s.
read write readwrite
master: 6 6 3/ 3
first commit: 51 43 23/ 23
second commit: 392 180 144/143
Tested on a 2GiB raw image with:
fio --filename=/dev/mmcblk0 --direct=1 --runtime=60 --time_based --bs=128k --rw={mode}
The adma values are somewhat unstable but always >100MiB/s, I'm not sure
why but I guess it has something to do with the host side caching.
For erasing the third commit changes the erase operation to write zeros,
as indicated by DATA_STAT_AFTER_ERASE in SCR.
The fourth commit allows erasure in large blocks, to speed it up
significantly. Erasing 2GiB now takes 0.1s instead of 26s.
Signed-off-by: Christian Speich <c.speich@avm.de>
---
Christian Speich (4):
hw/sd: Switch from byte-wise to buf+len read/writes
hw/sd/sdhci: Don't use bounce buffer for ADMA
hw/sd/sdcard: Erase blocks to zero
hw/sd/sdcard: Erase in large blocks
hw/sd/core.c | 16 +---
hw/sd/sd.c | 277 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
hw/sd/sdhci.c | 102 +++++++++++---------
include/hw/sd/sd.h | 13 +--
4 files changed, 277 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: e7c1e8043a69c5a8efa39d4f9d111f7c72c076e6
change-id: 20250912-sdcard-performance-b4-d908bbb5a004
Best regards,
--
Christian Speich <c.speich@avm.de>
next reply other threads:[~2025-09-19 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-19 12:34 Christian Speich [this message]
2025-09-19 12:34 ` [PATCH 1/4] hw/sd: Switch from byte-wise to buf+len read/writes Christian Speich
2025-09-19 12:34 ` [PATCH 2/4] hw/sd/sdhci: Don't use bounce buffer for ADMA Christian Speich
2025-09-19 12:34 ` [PATCH 3/4] hw/sd/sdcard: Erase blocks to zero Christian Speich
2025-11-24 4:09 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-11-25 9:47 ` Christian Speich
2025-09-19 12:34 ` [PATCH 4/4] hw/sd/sdcard: Erase in large blocks Christian Speich
2025-11-07 9:08 ` [PATCH 0/4] hw/sd: Improve performance of read/write/erase Christian Speich
2025-11-24 4:05 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
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