Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755990Ab0DWGDU (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:03:20 -0400 Received: from www84.your-server.de ([213.133.104.84]:45814 "EHLO www84.your-server.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755885Ab0DWGDT (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:03:19 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix a huge latency problem in the MTD CFI and LPDDR flash drivers. From: Stefani Seibold To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <1271787391.16051.4.camel@wall-e.seibold.net> References: <1271623604.7050.0.camel@wall-e.seibold.net> <1271787391.16051.4.camel@wall-e.seibold.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:03:04 +0200 Message-ID: <1272002584.5347.2.camel@wall-e.seibold.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-Sender: stefani@seibold.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2609 Lines: 63 Hi Andrew, David did not respond to my request since more than a month. Can u apply the patch to linux next? Thanks, Stefani Am Dienstag, den 20.04.2010, 20:16 +0200 schrieb Stefani Seibold: > Is the MTD mailing list routed to /dev/null? > > It is very sad that nobody gives my a reply. > > I ask for a merge for the patch, and if there any reason why not, it > would be great to know. Otherwise i can't fix it. > > So again, please merge the path for the huge latency problem. > > Am Sonntag, den 18.04.2010, 22:46 +0200 schrieb Stefani Seibold: > > From: Stefani Seibold > > > > The use of a memcpy() during a spinlock operation will cause very long > > thread context switch delays if the flash chip bandwidth is low and the > > data to be copied large, because a spinlock will disable preemption. > > > > For example: A flash with 6,5 MB/s bandwidth will cause under ubifs, > > which request sometimes 128 KB (the flash erase size), a preemption delay of > > 20 milliseconds. High priority threads will not be served during this > > time, regardless whether this threads access the flash or not. This behavior > > breaks real time. > > > > The patch changes all the use of spin_lock operations for xxxx->mutex > > into mutex operations, which is exact what the name says and means. > > > > I have checked the code of the drivers and there is no use of atomic > > pathes like interrupt or timers. The mtdoops facility will also not be used > > by this drivers. So it is dave to replace the spin_lock against mutex. > > > > There is no performance regression since the mutex is normally not > > acquired. > > > > Changelog: > > 06.03.2010 First release > > 26.03.2010 Fix mutex[1] issue and tested it for compile failure > > > > Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold > > --- > > drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c | 131 +++++++++++++++++----------------- > > drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c | 122 ++++++++++++++++---------------- > > drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0020.c | 136 +++++++++++++++++----------------- > > drivers/mtd/chips/fwh_lock.h | 6 +- > > drivers/mtd/chips/gen_probe.c | 3 +- > > drivers/mtd/lpddr/lpddr_cmds.c | 79 ++++++++++---------- > > include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h | 4 +- > > 7 files changed, 239 insertions(+), 242 deletions(-) > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/