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[1/3,v2] MTD: atmel_nand: modify test case for using DMA operations

Message ID 1301668844-4500-1-git-send-email-nicolas.ferre@atmel.com
State Accepted
Commit 9d51567e47a0d84f6b6e7751a4ea4f710cdcbbdf
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Nicolas Ferre April 1, 2011, 2:40 p.m. UTC 
We have better performances not using DMA for oob operations.
Modify size test so that it is using DMA for size greater than oobsize.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
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Artem,

Here is the v2 version with embedded comment as you suggested.

Best regards,

 drivers/mtd/nand/atmel_nand.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Artem Bityutskiy April 1, 2011, 1:36 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 16:40 +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> We have better performances not using DMA for oob operations.
> Modify size test so that it is using DMA for size greater than oobsize.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>

Pushed to l2-mtd-2.6.git, thank you!
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diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel_nand.c
index 6fae04b..5872f2a 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel_nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel_nand.c
@@ -280,7 +280,8 @@  static void atmel_read_buf(struct mtd_info *mtd, u8 *buf, int len)
 	struct nand_chip *chip = mtd->priv;
 	struct atmel_nand_host *host = chip->priv;
 
-	if (use_dma && len >= mtd->oobsize)
+	if (use_dma && len > mtd->oobsize)
+		/* only use DMA for bigger than oob size: better performances */
 		if (atmel_nand_dma_op(mtd, buf, len, 1) == 0)
 			return;
 
@@ -295,7 +296,8 @@  static void atmel_write_buf(struct mtd_info *mtd, const u8 *buf, int len)
 	struct nand_chip *chip = mtd->priv;
 	struct atmel_nand_host *host = chip->priv;
 
-	if (use_dma && len >= mtd->oobsize)
+	if (use_dma && len > mtd->oobsize)
+		/* only use DMA for bigger than oob size: better performances */
 		if (atmel_nand_dma_op(mtd, (void *)buf, len, 0) == 0)
 			return;