linux-kernel - Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

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Message-ID: <4633283C.2000301@drzeus.cx>
Date:	Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:55:56 +0200
From:	Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@...eus.cx>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...il.com>,
	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> I have a hard time believe that device hardware limits don't allow them
> to have enough space to handle larger requests.  If so it was a poor
> design by the hardware manufacturers.
> 

In the MMC layer, the block size is a major bottle neck. None of the currently
supported hardware supports scatter/gather so we're restricted to servicing a
single continuous chunk of memory at a time. And since latency is substantial
for MMC/SD, good performance is several orders above 4k. We get ~8 MB/s for
cards which are supposed to do 20 MB/s (which has been tested against other
systems where we can get larger memory chunks), and the peasants are getting a
bit unruly.

I plan to experiment with some bounce buffer scheme to get performance up, but
getting large blocks directly would make such hacks unnecessary.

Just my two cents.

Rgds

-- 
     -- Pierre Ossman

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  PulseAudio, core developer          http://pulseaudio.org
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