Re: [PATCH 0/6] various fixes for UFS-PM series

2014-11-20 Thread merez
Reviewed-by: Maya Erez > Contains a couple of bug fixes reported by Akinobu Mita, In adition to > "static checker" warnings reported by Dan Carpenter. > > Akinobu Mita (1): > scsi: ufs: fix reference counting of W-LUs > > Dolev Raviv (4): > scsi: ufs: fix static checker errors in ufshcd_syste

Re: [PATCH V3 4/4] scsi: ufs: Improve UFS fatal error handling

2013-07-09 Thread merez
Tested with error injection. Tested-by: Maya Erez > Error handling in UFS driver is broken and resets the host controller > for fatal errors without re-initialization. Correct the fatal error > handling sequence according to UFS Host Controller Interface (HCI) > v1.1 specification. > > o Upon de

Re: [PATCH V3 3/4] scsi: ufs: Fix device and host reset methods

2013-07-09 Thread merez
Tested with error injection. Tested-by: Maya Erez > As of now SCSI initiated error handling is broken because, > the reset APIs don't try to bring back the device initialized and > ready for further transfers. > > In case of timeouts, the scsi error handler takes care of handling aborts > and re

Re: [PATCH V3 2/4] scsi: ufs: Fix hardware race conditions while aborting a command

2013-07-09 Thread merez
Tested-by: Maya Erez > There is a possible race condition in the hardware when the abort > command is issued to terminate the ongoing SCSI command as described > below: > > - A bit in the door-bell register is set in the controller for a > new SCSI command. > - In some rare situations, before c

Re: [PATCH V3 1/4] scsi: ufs: Fix broken task management command implementation

2013-07-09 Thread merez
Tested-by: Maya Erez > Currently, sending Task Management (TM) command to the card might > be broken in some scenarios as listed below: > > Problem: If there are more than 8 TM commands the implementation > returns error to the caller. > Fix: Wait for one of the slots to be emptied a

Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] scsi: ufs: Add runtime PM support for UFS host controller driver

2013-07-09 Thread merez
Tested-by: Maya Erez > Add runtime PM helpers to suspend/resume UFS controller at runtime. > Enable runtime PM by default for pci and platform drivers as the > initialized hardware can suspend if it is not used after bootup. > > Signed-off-by: Sujit Reddy Thumma > --- > drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd-

Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] scsi: ufs: Add support for host assisted background operations

2013-07-09 Thread merez
Tested-by: Maya Erez > Background operations in the UFS device can be disabled by > the host to reduce the response latency of transfer requests. > Add support for enabling/disabling the background operations > during runtime suspend/resume of the device. > > If the device is in critical need of

Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] scsi: ufs: Add support for sending NOP OUT UPIU

2013-07-09 Thread merez
Tested-by: Maya Erez > As part of device initialization sequence, sending NOP OUT UPIU and > waiting for NOP IN UPIU response is mandatory. This confirms that the > device UFS Transport (UTP) layer is functional and the host can configure > the device with further commands. Add support for sendin

Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] scsi: ufs: Set fDeviceInit flag to initiate device initialization

2013-07-09 Thread merez
Tested-by: Maya Erez > From: Dolev Raviv > > Allow UFS device to complete its initialization and accept > SCSI commands by setting fDeviceInit flag. The device may take > time for this operation and hence the host should poll until > fDeviceInit flag is toggled to zero. This step is mandated by

Re: [PATCH v1] mmc-utils: adding support for Android compilation

2013-05-13 Thread merez
Hi Chris, Can you please merge this patch to mmc-utils? Thanks, Maya > Signed-off-by: Yaniv Gardi > --- > Android.mk | 11 +++ > 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 Android.mk > > diff --git a/Android.mk b/Android.mk > new file mode 100644 > index 0

Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: ufs: Set fDeviceInit flag to initiate device initialization

2013-05-06 Thread merez
Tested-by: Maya Erez > From: Dolev Raviv > > Allow UFS device to complete its initialization and accept SCSI > commands by setting fDeviceInit flag. The device may take time > for this operation and hence the host should poll until fDeviceInit > flag is toggled to zero. This step is mandated by

Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] scsi: ufs: Add support for sending NOP OUT UPIU

2013-05-06 Thread merez
Tested-by: Maya Erez > As part of device initialization sequence, sending NOP OUT UPIU and > waiting for NOP IN UPIU response is mandatory. This confirms that the > device UFS Transport (UTP) layer is functional and the host can configure > the device with further commands. Add support for sendin

RE: [PATCH v4] mmc: card: Adding support for sanitize in eMMC 4.5

2013-05-04 Thread merez
Hi Chris, Can you please approve this patch and the corresponding mmc-utils patch? Thanks, Maya > Maya, > > This looks good to me. > > Thanks, >Luca > >> -Original Message- >> From: linux-mmc-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-mmc- >> ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of me...@codeau

Re: [PATCH v4] mmc: card: Adding support for sanitize in eMMC 4.5

2013-05-01 Thread merez
Hi, Ulf / Luca - I would appreciate if you could review this new version with high priority. If you don't have additional concerns I would like to try and push the changes to kernel-3.10. Thanks, Maya > The sanitize support is added as a user-app ioctl call, and > was removed from the block-devic

Re: [PATCH] mmc: block: Add MMC write packing statistics

2013-04-30 Thread merez
Hi Chris, Can we push this change to kernel-3.10? Thanks, Maya > The write packing statistics are used for debug purposes, in order > to get the amount of packing in different scenarios. > The statistics also include the reason for stopping the creation of > the packed request. > > Signed-off-by:

Re: [PATCH v2] mmc: card: Adding support for sanitize in eMMC 4.5

2013-04-30 Thread merez
Hi Ulf, You are right, the caps2 flag for Sanitize can be removed. I will send a fix for that. Thanks, Maya > On 17 April 2013 13:38, Maya Erez wrote: >> The sanitize support is added as a user-app ioctl call, and >> was removed from the block-device request, since its purpose is >> to be invoke

RE: [PATCH v2] mmc: card: Adding support for sanitize in eMMC 4.5

2013-04-18 Thread merez
Hi Luca, See below (2 comments). Thanks, Maya > Hi Maya, > >> -Original Message- >> From: linux-mmc-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-mmc- >> ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Maya Erez >> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:39 PM >> To: linux-...@vger.kernel.org >> Cc: linux-arm-msm@vg

Re: [PATCH v1] mmc: card: Adding support for sanitize in eMMC 4.5

2013-04-15 Thread merez
Hi Chris and Luca, Sorry for the late response. Yaniv is on vacation for the last month and will be back at the end of the week. We will add the HPI in case Sanitize times-out. Thanks, Maya > Hi Yaniv, Maya, > > On Mon, Mar 11 2013, Luca Porzio (lporzio) wrote: >> In case of Sanitize timeout, th

RE: [PATCH v1] mmc: card: Adding support for sanitize in eMMC 4.5

2013-03-21 Thread merez
Hi Luca, Having a timeout that takes into consideration the card size would be artificial as we cannot have the ability to create a function for its calculation that will fit all the card vendors. I suggest keeping it as a constant value for simplicity, as 4 minutes cover all the card sizes. Tha

[Fwd: [PATCH v5 1/3] mmc: core: Add support for idle time BKOPS]

2013-01-12 Thread merez
Forwarding this patch in case someone missed it, as Jaehoon did. Original Message Subject: [PATCH v5 1/3] mmc: core: Add support for idle time BKOPS From:"Maya Erez" Date:Thu, January 10, 2013 12:15 pm To: linux-...@vger.kerne

Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] mmc: core: Add support for idle time BKOPS

2013-01-11 Thread merez
Thanks, Ulf. Your help is appreciated. > On 10 January 2013 10:22, wrote: >> Hi Ulf, >> >> See below. >> >> Thanks, >> Maya >>> Hi Maya, >>> >>> On 24 December 2012 14:51, Maya Erez wrote: Devices have various maintenance operations need to perform internally. In order to reduce

Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] mmc: core: Add support for idle time BKOPS

2013-01-10 Thread merez
Hi Ulf, See below. Thanks, Maya > Hi Maya, > > On 24 December 2012 14:51, Maya Erez wrote: >> Devices have various maintenance operations need to perform internally. >> In order to reduce latencies during time critical operations like read >> and write, it is better to execute maintenance operat

Re: [PATCH v3] mmc: core: Add support for idle time BKOPS

2012-12-12 Thread merez
Hi Ulf, Sorry for the late response. See my reply below. Thanks, Maya On Thu, December 6, 2012 2:18 am, Ulf Hansson wrote: > Hi Maya, > > On 4 December 2012 22:17, wrote: >> Hi Ulf, >> >> Let me try to better explain: >> The idea behind the periodic BKOPS is to check the card's need for BKOPS

Re: [PATCH v3] mmc: core: Add support for idle time BKOPS

2012-12-04 Thread merez
Hi Ulf, Let me try to better explain: The idea behind the periodic BKOPS is to check the card's need for BKOPS periodically in order to prevent an urgent BKOPS need by the card. In order to actually manage to prevent the urgent BKOPS need, the host should give the card enough time to perform the B

Re: [PATCH v3] mmc: core: Add support for idle time BKOPS

2012-12-03 Thread merez
Hi Jaehoon, With this patch we don't expect to see any degradation. Thanks for verifying that. The test plan would be to run the lmdd and iozone benchmarks with this patch and verify that the performance is not degraded. I verified it with the msm_sdcc controller. Chris - We do expect it to influ

Re: [PATCH v3] mmc: core: Add support for idle time BKOPS

2012-11-25 Thread merez
Hi Chris, I managed to find a solution in which there is no need to check the number of written / discarded sectors as a trigger for BKOPS status check. I moved the code that checks the need to stop the BKOPS to mmc/block code, in which there is no need for additional claim_host and remove_host op

Re: [PATCH v2] mmc: core: Add support for idle time BKOPS

2012-11-06 Thread merez
Hi Jaehoon, Any update on this patch review and testing? Thanks, Maya On Mon, October 15, 2012 11:53 pm, Jaehoon Chung wrote: > Hi Maya, > > I'm testing with your patch..but i need to have the more time for testing. > In now, it looks good to me. Thank you for working the idle bkops. > > Best Reg

Re: [PATCH v2] mmc: core: Add support for idle time BKOPS

2012-10-08 Thread merez
Hi Chris and all, According to the eMMC4.5 standard, a host that enables the BKOPS_EN bit must also check the BKOPS status periodically: "Host shall check the status periodically and start background operations as needed, so that the device has enough time for its maintenance operations, to help r

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mmc: block: Add write packing control

2012-09-05 Thread merez
Hi Venkat, Sorry for the late response. I came back from a long vacation and had many issues to take care of. If you still need a rebased version of the packed commands patches, I can send a rebased version of the write packing control patch once Seungwon Jeon will send the rebased version of the

Re: [RFC/PATCH] mmc: core: Add support for idle time BKOPs

2012-09-03 Thread merez
On Thu, August 30, 2012 12:36 am, Jaehoon Chung wrote: > On 08/05/2012 10:08 PM, Maya Erez wrote: >> When the mmcqd thread is idle, a delayed work is created to check the >> need for BKOPs. The time to start the delayed work is calculated based >> on the host controller suspend timeout, in case it

Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] block: Add test-iosched scheduler

2012-08-27 Thread merez
Hi Jens, Can you refer to my reply? Currently the test-iosched is our only option for testing the eMMC4.5 features on a HS200 eMMC card. Thanks, Maya On Thu, August 2, 2012 6:16 am, me...@codeaurora.org wrote: > > On Tue, July 31, 2012 8:46 am, Jens Axboe wrote: >> On 07/31/2012 04:36 PM, me...@c

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mmc: block: Add write packing control

2012-08-27 Thread merez
On Fri, July 27, 2012 2:07 am, S, Venkatraman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:24 AM, wrote: >> >> On Thu, July 26, 2012 8:28 am, S, Venkatraman wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:14 PM, wrote: On Mon, July 23, 2012 5:22 am, S, Venkatraman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 5:13 PM

Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] block: Add test-iosched scheduler

2012-08-02 Thread merez
On Tue, July 31, 2012 8:46 am, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 07/31/2012 04:36 PM, me...@codeaurora.org wrote: >> Hi Jens, >> >> Do you have comments on this patch? >> Can we push it to kernel 3.6 version? > > I have questions - what is this good for? In other words, explain to me > why this is useful cod

Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] block: Add test-iosched scheduler

2012-07-31 Thread merez
Hi Jens, Do you have comments on this patch? Can we push it to kernel 3.6 version? Thanks, Maya On Tue, July 31, 2012 7:25 am, Maya Erez wrote: > The test scheduler allows testing a block device by dispatching > specific requests according to the test case and declare PASS/FAIL > according to the

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mmc: block: Add write packing control

2012-07-26 Thread merez
On Thu, July 26, 2012 8:28 am, S, Venkatraman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:14 PM, wrote: >> On Mon, July 23, 2012 5:22 am, S, Venkatraman wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 5:13 PM, wrote: On Wed, July 18, 2012 12:26 am, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, [removing Jens and the documentat

Re: [PATCH RESEND v8 2/2] mmc: card: Adding support for sanitize in eMMC 4.5

2012-07-25 Thread merez
Looks good to me. Reviewed-by: Maya Erez On Wed, July 25, 2012 4:31 am, Yaniv Gardi wrote: > This feature delete the unmap memory region of the eMMC card, > by writing to a specific register in the EXT_CSD > unmap region is the memory region that were previously deleted > (by erase, trim or disca

Re: [PATCH RESEND v8 1/2] block: ioctl support for sanitize in eMMC 4.5

2012-07-25 Thread merez
Looks good to me. Reviewed-by: Maya Erez On Wed, July 25, 2012 4:31 am, Yaniv Gardi wrote: > Adding a new ioctl to support sanitize operation in eMMC > cards version 4.5. > The sanitize ioctl support helps performing this operation > via user application. > > Signed-off-by: Yaniv Gardi > > --- >

Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] mmc: card: Adding support for sanitize in eMMC 4.5

2012-07-25 Thread merez
On Wed, July 25, 2012 2:32 am, Yaniv Gardi wrote: > @@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ struct mmc_host { > #define MMC_CAP2_BROKEN_VOLTAGE (1 << 7)/* Use the broken > voltage */ > #define MMC_CAP2_DETECT_ON_ERR (1 << 8)/* On I/O err check > card removal > */ > #define MMC_CAP2_HC_

Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] block: ioctl support for sanitize in eMMC 4.5

2012-07-25 Thread merez
Looks good to me. Reviewed-by: Maya Erez On Wed, July 25, 2012 2:32 am, Yaniv Gardi wrote: > Adding a new ioctl to support sanitize operation in eMMC > cards version 4.5. > The sanitize ioctl support helps performing this operation > via user application. > > Signed-off-by: Yaniv Gardi > > --- >

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mmc: block: Add write packing control

2012-07-24 Thread merez
Attached are the trace logs for parallel read and write lmdd operations. On Tue, July 24, 2012 1:44 am, me...@codeaurora.org wrote: > On Mon, July 23, 2012 5:22 am, S, Venkatraman wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 5:13 PM, wrote: >>> On Wed, July 18, 2012 12:26 am, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, [r

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mmc: block: Add write packing control

2012-07-24 Thread merez
On Mon, July 23, 2012 5:22 am, S, Venkatraman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 5:13 PM, wrote: >> On Wed, July 18, 2012 12:26 am, Chris Ball wrote: >>> Hi, [removing Jens and the documentation list, since now we're talking about the MMC side only] >>> On Wed, Jul 18 2012, me...@codeaurora.org wr

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mmc: block: Add write packing control

2012-07-23 Thread merez
On Wed, July 18, 2012 12:26 am, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, [removing Jens and the documentation list, since now we're > talking about the MMC side only] > > On Wed, Jul 18 2012, me...@codeaurora.org wrote: >> Is there anything else that holds this patch from being pushed to mmc-next? > > Yes, I'm sti

Re: [PATCH RESEND v7 2/2] mmc: card: Adding support for sanitize in eMMC 4.5

2012-07-19 Thread merez
On Wed, July 18, 2012 11:46 pm, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi Yaniv, > > On Thu, Jun 28 2012, Yaniv Gardi wrote: >> This feature delete the unmap memory region of the eMMC card, >> by writing to a specific register in the EXT_CSD >> unmap region is the memory region that were previously deleted >> (by era

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mmc: block: Add write packing control

2012-07-17 Thread merez
Hi Chris, Is there anything else that holds this patch from being pushed to mmc-next? Thanks, Maya On Tue, July 17, 2012 3:50 pm, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi Muthu, > > On Mon, Jul 16 2012, Muthu Kumar wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Chris Ball wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 15 2012, M

Re: [PATCH RESEND v4 2/2] mmc: block: Add write packing control

2012-07-14 Thread merez
Hi all, Do you have additional comments on this patch? I rebased it to the latest linux-next since the write packed command patch was merged in. Thanks, Maya On Sat, July 14, 2012 11:46 am, Maya Erez wrote: > The write packing control will ensure that read requests latency is > not increased due

Re: [PATCH RESEND v4 1/2] mmc: card: Move MMC specific attributes to mmc sub-directory

2012-07-14 Thread merez
Hi all, Do you have additional comments on this patch? Thanks, Maya On Sat, July 14, 2012 11:46 am, Maya Erez wrote: > Separate MMC specific attributes from general block device > attributes and move them from the /sys/block/ directory > to /sys/block//mmc directory > > Signed-off-by: Maya Erez

Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] mmc: block: Add write packing control

2012-07-12 Thread merez
Hi Chris, Can we push this change to mmc-next? Thanks, Maya On Mon, July 2, 2012 5:15 am, Maya Erez wrote: > The write packing control will ensure that read requests latency is > not increased due to long write packed commands. > > The trigger for enabling the write packing is managing to pack se

Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] mmc: card: Move MMC specific attributes to mmc sub-directory

2012-07-12 Thread merez
Hi Chris, Can we push this change to mmc-next? Thanks, Maya On Mon, July 2, 2012 5:15 am, Maya Erez wrote: > Separate MMC specific attributes from general block device > attributes and move them from the /sys/block/ directory > to /sys/block//mmc directory > > Signed-off-by: Maya Erez > > diff -

Re: [PATCH RESEND v7 2/2] mmc: card: Adding support for sanitize in eMMC 4.5

2012-06-28 Thread merez
Looks good to me. Reviewed-by: Maya Erez On Thu, June 28, 2012 1:32 am, Yaniv Gardi wrote: > This feature delete the unmap memory region of the eMMC card, > by writing to a specific register in the EXT_CSD > unmap region is the memory region that were previously deleted > (by erase, trim or disca

Re: [PATCH RESEND v7 1/2] block: ioctl support for sanitize in eMMC 4.5

2012-06-28 Thread merez
Looks good to me. Reviewed-by: Maya Erez On Thu, June 28, 2012 1:32 am, Yaniv Gardi wrote: > Adding a new ioctl to support sanitize operation in eMMC > cards version 4.5. > The sanitize ioctl support helps performing this operation > via user application. > > Signed-off-by: Yaniv Gardi > > --- >

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mmc: block: Add write packing control

2012-06-14 Thread merez
On Wed, June 13, 2012 3:21 pm, Muthu Kumar wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:52 PM, wrote: >> >> On Mon, June 11, 2012 5:28 pm, Muthu Kumar wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Muthu Kumar >>> wrote: On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Maya Erez wrote: > trigger > the p

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mmc: block: Add write packing control

2012-06-13 Thread merez
On Mon, June 11, 2012 5:28 pm, Muthu Kumar wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Muthu Kumar wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Maya Erez wrote: >>> The write packing control will ensure that read requests latency is >>> not increased due to long write packed commands. >>> >>> The tr

Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] block: Add test-iosched scheduler

2012-06-12 Thread merez
On Tue, June 12, 2012 1:13 pm, Jeff Moyer wrote: > me...@codeaurora.org writes: > >> On Tue, June 12, 2012 7:09 am, Jeff Moyer wrote: >>> Maya Erez writes: >>> The test scheduler allows testing a block device by dispatching specific requests according to the test case and declare PASS/F

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mmc: block: Add write packing control

2012-06-12 Thread merez
On Mon, June 11, 2012 5:28 pm, Muthu Kumar wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Muthu Kumar wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Maya Erez wrote: >>> The write packing control will ensure that read requests latency is >>> not increased due to long write packed commands. >>> >>> The tr

Re: [PATCH 1/1] block: Add eMMC4.5 packed commands unit-tests

2012-06-12 Thread merez
On Tue, June 12, 2012 7:11 am, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Maya Erez writes: > >> Expose the following packed commands tests: >> - Test the write packed commands list preparation >> - Simulate a returned error code >> - Send an invalid packed command to the card >> >> Signed-off-by: Lee Susman >> Signed

Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] block: Add test-iosched scheduler

2012-06-12 Thread merez
On Tue, June 12, 2012 7:09 am, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Maya Erez writes: > >> The test scheduler allows testing a block device by dispatching >> specific requests according to the test case and declare PASS/FAIL >> according to the requests completion error code > > What sort of tests have you writte

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mmc: block: Add write packing control

2012-06-12 Thread merez
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:40 AM, wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:25 PM,   wrote: > Maya Erez wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > How can we check the effect? >> > Do you have any result? >> We ran parallel lmdd read and write operations and found out that the >> write pa

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mmc: block: Add write packing control

2012-06-11 Thread merez
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 8:16 PM, wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> How can we check the effect? >>> Do you have any result? >> We ran parallel lmdd read and write operations and found out that the >> write packing causes the read throughput to drop from 24MB/s to 12MB/s. > > Whoa! That's a big drop. >

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mmc: block: Add write packing control

2012-06-11 Thread merez
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:25 PM, wrote: >> >>> Maya Erez wrote: > Hi, > > How can we check the effect? > Do you have any result? We ran parallel lmdd read and write operations and found out that the write packing causes the read throughput to drop from 24MB/

RE: [PATCH v2 1/1] mmc: block: Add write packing control

2012-06-11 Thread merez
> Maya Erez wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > How can we check the effect? >> > Do you have any result? >> We ran parallel lmdd read and write operations and found out that the >> write packing causes the read throughput to drop from 24MB/s to 12MB/s. >> The write packing control managed to increase t

Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] mmc: card: Adding support for sanitize in eMMC 4.5

2012-06-10 Thread merez
Looks good to me. > This feature delete the unmap memory region of the eMMC card, > by writing to a specific register in the EXT_CSD > unmap region is the memory region that were previously deleted > (by erase, trim or discard operation) > > Signed-off-by: Yaniv Gardi > Signed-off-by: Maya Erez

Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] block: ioctl support for sanitize in eMMC 4.5

2012-06-10 Thread merez
Looks good to me. > Adding a new ioctl to support sanitize operation in eMMC > cards version 4.5. > The sanitize ioctl support helps performing this operation > via user application. > > Signed-off-by: Yaniv Gardi > Signed-off-by: Maya Erez > Signed-off-by: Yaniv Gardi > > --- > block/blk-core

Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] block: Add test-iosched scheduler

2012-06-09 Thread merez
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Maya Erez wrote: >> The test scheduler allows testing a block device by dispatching >> specific requests according to the test case and declare PASS/FAIL >> according to the requests completion error code >> > I can't get the point. Isn't this possible purely fro

RE: [PATCH v2 1/1] mmc: block: Add write packing control

2012-06-09 Thread merez
> Hi, > > How can we check the effect? > Do you have any result? We ran parallel lmdd read and write operations and found out that the write packing causes the read throughput to drop from 24MB/s to 12MB/s. The write packing control managed to increase the read throughput back to the original valu

Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/1] mmc: block: Add MMC write packing statistics

2012-06-06 Thread merez
>> + >> +       for (i = 1 ; i <= max_num_of_packed_reqs ; ++i) { > This is something magical number for iterations. why can not we start from > zero. The statistics are kept in the array in the index that equals the number of packed requests. Therefore, they are kept in the array in indexes 1 to m

Re: [RFC/PATCH v4] usb: Add streams support to the gadget framework.

2011-01-23 Thread merez
> On Thu, January 20, 2011 8:38 am, Greg KH wrote: > Why? What in-kernel code needs this? > Again, why? Both chnages are required for the UASP device driver (http://marc.info/?t=12955959241&r=1&w=2). Thanks, Maya Erez Consultant for Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center,

Re: [RFC/PATCH v2] usb: Add streams support to epautoconf.

2010-12-27 Thread merez
>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 03:58AM, Maya Erez wrote: > We beleive that the chip-specific code for net2280 and goku at the > beginning of usb_ep_autoconfig can be moved to this new gadget op, > therefore it is also needed for today's implementation. I will do the > cahnge and send a new patch for re

Re: [RFC/PATCH v2] usb: Add streams support to epautoconf.

2010-12-22 Thread merez
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 09:58AM, Greg KH wrote: > First rule of kernel development, "don't add infrastructure that you do > not need today." We beleive that the chip-specific code for net2280 and goku at the beginning of usb_ep_autoconfig can be moved to this new gadget op, therefore it is also n

Re: [RFC/PATCH v2] usb: Add streams support to epautoconf.

2010-12-21 Thread merez
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:58AM, Greg KH wrote: > Ok, but please note the word of "proprietary" usually means something else when talking about kernel code (i.e. licensing issues.) > > I'll be glad to take this type of patch when you also provide a patch that uses the callback, but not before th

Re: [RFC/PATCH v2] usb: Add streams support to epautoconf.

2010-12-20 Thread merez
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:15AM, Greg KH wrote: > What do you exactly mean by "proprietary search algorithm"? Our implementation for finding an EP with the required number of streams may not fit the needs and platform definitions of all controllers. For example, having the minimum number of stre