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Use variable blksize for mtdblock

PATCH New Kyungmin Park 1 participant 1 message Aug 30, 2007 Memory technology devices (MTD)

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[MTD] Use variable blksize for mtdblock

Even though we can assign the blksize, some codes are hard-coded. It makes the problem, if you change the blksize.
Also others mtd user have same problem.

If we increase the blksize to PAGE_SIZE, it has better performance than before Of course, we can use it as before as SECTOR_SIZE

Here's performance gain with same configuration and hardware.

* blksize = 4096
/ # time dd if=/dev/mtdblock3 of=/dev/null
32768+0 records in
32768+0 records out

real    0m 1.80s
user    0m 0.05s
sys     0m 0.55s

* blksize = 512
/ # time dd if=/dev/mtdblock3 of=/dev/null
32768+0 records in
32768+0 records out

real    0m 2.07s
user    0m 0.06s
sys     0m 0.38s

---

drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c +5 -3
index 952da30..a908355 100644
@@ -245,13 +245,15 @@ static int mtdblock_readsect(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *dev,
 			      unsigned long block, char *buf)
 {
 	struct mtdblk_dev *mtdblk = mtdblks[dev->devnum];
-	return do_cached_read(mtdblk, block<<9, 512, buf);
+	struct mtd_blktrans_ops *tr = dev->tr;
+	return do_cached_read(mtdblk, block<<tr->blkshift, tr->blksize, buf);
 }
 
 static int mtdblock_writesect(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *dev,
 			      unsigned long block, char *buf)
 {
 	struct mtdblk_dev *mtdblk = mtdblks[dev->devnum];
+	struct mtd_blktrans_ops *tr = dev->tr;
 	if (unlikely(!mtdblk->cache_data && mtdblk->cache_size)) {
 		mtdblk->cache_data = vmalloc(mtdblk->mtd->erasesize);
 		if (!mtdblk->cache_data)
@@ -261,7 +263,7 @@ static int mtdblock_writesect(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *dev,
 		 * return -EAGAIN sometimes, but why bother?
 		 */
 	}
-	return do_cached_write(mtdblk, block<<9, 512, buf);
+	return do_cached_write(mtdblk, block<<tr->blkshift, tr->blksize, buf);
 }
 
 static int mtdblock_open(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *mbd)
@@ -346,7 +348,7 @@ static void mtdblock_add_mtd(struct mtd_blktrans_ops *tr, struct mtd_info *mtd)
 	dev->mtd = mtd;
 	dev->devnum = mtd->index;
 
-	dev->size = mtd->size >> 9;
+	dev->size = mtd->size >> tr->blkshift;
 	dev->tr = tr;
 
 	if (!(mtd->flags & MTD_WRITEABLE))