[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 1/2] add block device cache

[Eric Nelson <eric@nelint.com>]

Thanks for the review(s) Stephen.

On 03/17/2016 02:16 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 03/16/2016 03:40 PM, Eric Nelson wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Nelson <eric@nelint.com>
> 
> A patch description would be useful here; the cover letter wouldn't be
> checked in.
> 

Yeah. Please hote the RFC.

I was really hoping for some broader feedback about whether this
is a better approach than the more specialized ext4 extent cache.

If I can get an ack on the approach, I think a minimal block
device cache would support at least 2 or 4 entries, and I'd
need to be able to answer the questions from your other
response:

> Do you have any stats on how many operations this saves for typical FS operations such as:
> 
> - Partition table type identification (with various types such as MBR/DOS, GPT, ...)
> - Partition enumeration
> - Filesystem identification (with various filesystems such as FAT, ext, ...)
> - File reads 

Should I interpret this as support of a small(ish) block device cache?

Regards,


Eric