Raise the limit for writes without block erase from two to four
P30_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE_IN_BYTES blocks.  With this in place almost
all efi variable updates are handled without block erase.  With
the old limit some variable updates (with device paths) took the
block erase code path.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com>
---
 OvmfPkg/VirtNorFlashDxe/VirtNorFlash.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/OvmfPkg/VirtNorFlashDxe/VirtNorFlash.c 
b/OvmfPkg/VirtNorFlashDxe/VirtNorFlash.c
index 90db12716a4c..c631ffd3a62d 100644
--- a/OvmfPkg/VirtNorFlashDxe/VirtNorFlash.c
+++ b/OvmfPkg/VirtNorFlashDxe/VirtNorFlash.c
@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ NorFlashWriteSingleBlock (
   // To avoid pathological cases were a 2 byte write is disregarded because it
   // occurs right at a 128 byte buffered write alignment boundary, permit up to
   // twice the max buffer size, and perform two writes if needed.
-  if ((*NumBytes + (Offset & BOUNDARY_OF_32_WORDS)) <= (2 * 
P30_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE_IN_BYTES)) {
+  if ((*NumBytes + (Offset & BOUNDARY_OF_32_WORDS)) <= (4 * 
P30_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE_IN_BYTES)) {
     // Check to see if we need to erase before programming the data into NOR.
     // If the destination bits are only changing from 1s to 0s we can just 
write.
     // After a block is erased all bits in the block is set to 1.
-- 
2.43.0



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