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From: Eric Nelson <eric@nelint.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 1/2] add block device cache
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 15:51:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56EF2964.6060302@nelint.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160320221325.GT23166@bill-the-cat>

Thanks for the feedback Tom,

On 03/20/2016 03:13 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 02:33:04PM -0700, Eric Nelson wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Well, I guess it comes down to how hard it is to also re-use this on say
> USB (another common case and one I assume you can test on your HW) since
> all of EXT4 and FAT and MMC and USB are fairly common and we should be
> able to address these with your approach, or at least be within "rework
> some other stuff and then.." distance.
> 

It should be trivial to include this support for USB, SATA, IDE, or
any other block device, but not transparent.

I'm close to a V2 RFC patch so people can throw stones at an actual
implementation.

Regards,


Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-20 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-16 18:42 [U-Boot] ext4 and caching Eric Nelson
2016-03-16 21:40 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 0/2] simple cache layer for block devices Eric Nelson
2016-03-16 21:40   ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 1/2] add block device cache Eric Nelson
2016-03-17 21:16     ` Stephen Warren
2016-03-17 21:33       ` Eric Nelson
2016-03-17 21:41         ` Stephen Warren
2016-03-20 22:13         ` Tom Rini
2016-03-20 22:51           ` Eric Nelson [this message]
2016-03-16 21:40   ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 2/2] mmc: add support for " Eric Nelson
2016-03-17 21:23     ` Stephen Warren
2016-03-20 19:35       ` Eric Nelson
2016-03-20 22:13         ` Tom Rini
2016-03-20 22:54           ` Eric Nelson
2016-03-21 18:31             ` Eric Nelson
2016-03-26  0:11               ` Eric Nelson
2016-04-09 17:55             ` Simon Glass
2016-04-10 14:31               ` Eric Nelson
2016-03-21 14:27         ` Eric Nelson
2016-03-19 15:42 ` [U-Boot] ext4 and caching Ioan Nicu
2016-03-20 15:02   ` Eric Nelson

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