Messages in this thread | | | From | Wolfgang Mües <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mmc_spi: use EILSEQ for possible transmission errors | Date | Mon, 25 May 2009 11:04:47 +0200 |
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David,
Am Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2009 schrieb David Brownell: > On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Pierre Ossman wrote: > > > Remember that the > > > firmware in the card can leverage "that's erased" knowledge for > > > things like wear leveling. SSDs and other storage devices would > > > likewise benefit from such knowledge. I'm quite certain there's > > > been discussion about adding support for that in the block layer. > > > > It's already in AFAIK. I even had code for hooking it up to mmc_block. > > But it didn't produce any measurable results so I never merged it. > > I'd expect the results would take time to show. As in, they would > facilitate wear leveling logic, which may be difficult to measure > except by testing various cards to destruction ... even for vendors > that *do* have decent wear leveling. :)
Can someone please explain for me the purpose and the implementation of this wear level logic in block.c?
I can not see why a sector erase and the sector erase result codes of a MMC/SD card can be used to get any usefull information about wear leveling in the card. The mapping of physical to logical blocks is not reported by the card, and the number of erase cycles for each block is also not reported. SO how can the host be able to optimize the wear leveling?
As far as I can see, the best wear level handling for MMC/SD cards is to optimize the size of the chunks of data to write. I have posted a patch (mmc_spi: speedup for slow cards, less wear-out), and it was accepted by Pierre at 11th of april.
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