Re: [PATCH] mmc: core: add auto bkops support

From: Ulf Hansson
Date: Mon Jun 27 2016 - 05:08:39 EST


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>>> If I am not wrong, in current implementation of runtime suspend,
>>> the driver stops BKOPS (send HPI) just before sending sleep command,
>>> see _mmc_suspend(), depends on âMMC_CAP_AGGRESSIVE_PMâ flag.
>>> In this case, the eMMC device will not have enough time to perform internal
>>> BKOPS in both â Manual and Auto BKOPS configurations.
>>>
>>
>> ye, so it seems a pre-exiting issue before introducing auto bkops?
>> I think we can push another patch to improve it but not handling
>> it for this $SUBJECT, does it sound ok to you?
>
> Runtime suspend for eMMC has a default auto-suspend delay of 3 seconds
> (refer mmc_blk_probe()). Isn't that when auto bkops would happen?

That's correct.

So perhaps we should extend the default auto-suspend delay?

The SD case actually have the same issue, as I some background
operations exists there as well.

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Kind regards
Uffe