On 05/14/2018 05:14 PM, Evan Thompson wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 12:03 PM, Marek Vasut <marek.va...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> btw doesn't CONFIG_BLOCK_CACHE offer similar service, but for everyone >> and on block level ? I recall looking for ext4 fs speed up , but then >> ultimately used CONFIG_BLOCK_CACHE which did it for me. > > I was unaware of the existence of CONFIG_BLOCK_CACHE - yes, that will > solve the same problem by caching at the block level instead of the > filesystem level. So my patch is redundant, and ext4 users should just > be advised to turn on CONFIG_BLOCK_CACHE.
Maybe this block cache should be default=y (if BLK is enabled?) or we should advertise it more somehow. I ran into the exact same issue and started looking into the ext4 patches myself only to find the block cache later on. -- Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot