Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Jul 2011 22:53:45 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v8 00/12] use nonblock mmc requests to minimize latency | From | Per Forlin <> |
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On 2 July 2011 21:37, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > On Saturday 02 July 2011 14:29:38 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >> One other thing to be considered here is whether this idea should be >> limited to just MMC or whether it should be extended further, to >> move the DMA mapping stuff out of the hot path for other block devices >> too. >> >> There are ARM systems with SATA which do 28MB/s - which could be >> improved by this technique. > > Excellent point. We had discussed SATA items in the context of Linaro > work before, and the conclusion was always that we wouldn't need to > do any work for it in the common code. I'll make sure that we bring > it up at the meeting next month in Cambridge so we can officially > assign someone to do this. > Arnd, do you know if any of the Linaro boards have SATA?
Regards, Per
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