Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] mmc: jz4740: prepare next dma transfer in parallel with current transfer

From: Ulf Hansson
Date: Tue Aug 12 2014 - 16:15:42 EST


On 12 August 2014 20:10, Apelete Seketeli <apelete@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug-12-2014 at 06:22:04 PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>> On 21 July 2014 06:37, Apelete Seketeli <apelete@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Make use of the MMC asynchronous request capability to prepare the
>> > next DMA transfer request in parallel with the current transfer.
>> > This is done by adding pre-request and post-request callbacks that are
>> > used by the MMC framework during an active data transfer.
>> >
>> > It should help reduce the impact of DMA preparation overhead on the SD
>> > card performance.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Apelete Seketeli <apelete@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Thanks! Queued for 3.18.
>
> W00t \o/ <-- hacker joy. Thank you :).
>
> Just out of curiosity, why not pulling these for 3.17 ?

I have had a vacation period. Since these are quite big changes, I
think they deserve some testing in linux-next and did not want to pull
in some late changes for 3.17.

Kind regards
Uffe

>
> Cheers.
> --
> Apelete
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