Re: [PATCH 4.9 069/101] ubi: fastmap: Correctly handle interrupted erasures in EBA

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Mon Sep 24 2018 - 02:32:20 EST


Lars,

Am Sonntag, 23. September 2018, 15:49:42 CEST schrieb Lars Persson:
> Hi Richard
>
> Sorry, I assumed this omission from -stable was a mistake.
>
> The timing for our boot increased from 45 seconds to 55 seconds on one
> chip and 42 seconds to 48 seconds on another chip. The regression was
> completely fixed by applying the extra patches. The way I see it the
> first patch is a significant slow-down so the second patch is required
> to restore performance.

okay, this is not good. Let's put the performance patch also into -stable
to get rid of that regression.
Usually I'm rather conservative with adding non-trivial material to -stable.
As history has shown, Fastmap is special. ;-)

Out of interest, what flashes are these? I'm interested in page vs. erase size.
Did you give UBIFS bulk-read try?

Greg, I'll send another mail which will state what patches are needed.

Thanks,
//richard