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    mtd: atmel_nand: enable Nand Flash Controller (NFC) write via sram · 6054d4d5
    Josh Wu authored
    
    
    This patch enable writing nand flash via NFC SRAM. It will minimize the CPU
    overhead. The SRAM write only support ECC_NONE and ECC_HW with PMECC.
    
    To enable this NFC write by SRAM feature, you can add a string in dts under
    NFC driver node.
    
    This driver has been tested on SAMA5D3X-EK with JFFS2, YAFFS2, UBIFS and
    mtd-utils.
    
    Here is part of mtd_speedtest (writing test) result, compare with non-NFC
    writing, it reduces %65 cpu load with loss %12 speed.
    
    - commands use to test:
      # insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2 &
      # top -n 30 -d 1 | grep speedtest
    
    - test result:
    =================================================
    mtd_speedtest: MTD device: 2
    mtd_speedtest: MTD device size 41943040, eraseblock size 131072, page size 2048, count of eraseblocks 320, pages per eraseblock 64, OOB size 64
    mtd_speedtest: testing eraseblock write speed
      509   495 root     D     1164   0%   7% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
      509   495 root     D     1164   0%   8% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
      509   495 root     R     1164   0%   5% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
    mtd_speedtest: eraseblock write speed is 5194 KiB/s
    mtd_speedtest: testing page write speed
      509   495 root     D     1164   0%  32% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
      509   495 root     D     1164   0%  27% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
      509   495 root     D     1164   0%  25% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
      509   495 root     D     1164   0%  30% insmod /mnt/mtd_speedtest.ko dev=2
    mtd_speedtest: page write speed is 5024 KiB/s
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArtem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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