[PATCH 0/2] Improve GTA02 NAND read performance by 41%

[Micael Henriksson]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:

> | Even with the improved timings applied on stable-tracking and bs=2048,
> | the "old" kernel from 2.4.24 are still faster.
> |
> | hmm.. I'll need to check this more tomorrow..
>
> Thanks for looking at it... NAND access on stable-tracking is borked
> anyway, something about ECC stuff blows CRC errors when you mount jffs2.
> ~ Did you turn off ECC support?  If not you will likely find a bunch of
> junk in dmesg that can explain the slowdown.
>

I disabled the NAND debug option as it was spamming dmesg with prints
and making access super slow. (no errors)
I still used the HWECC option as the 2.6.24 kernel is built with.
CONFIG_MTD_NAND_S3C2410_HWECC=y

However I did re-enable the prints for when the HW ECC didn't match to
the calculated one, but none of them could be seen in dmesg and I
could mount the nand-root partition successfully.

A good test could be to disable the ECC stuff.. Also the better
performance with bs=2048 gives some indication that SW is causing some
of the slowdown.

Anyhow, I'll check this more later tonight.

--Micael