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Author SHA1 Message Date
Simon Glass
e6f6f9e648 common: Drop part.h from common header
Move this uncommon header out of the common header.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2020-05-18 17:33:33 -04:00
Angelo Durgehello
c05b38df47 common: fix regression on block cache init
m68k needs block cache list initialized after relocation.
Other architectures must not be involved.

Fixing regression related to:

commit 1526bcce0f
	("common: add blkcache init")

Signed-off-by: Angelo Durgehello <angelo.dureghello@timesys.com>
2020-01-26 13:36:14 -05:00
Angelo Durgehello
1526bcce0f common: add blkcache init
On m68k, block_cache list is relocated, but next and prev list
pointers are not adjusted to the relocated struct list_head address,
so the first iteration over the block_cache list hangs.

This patch initializes the block_cache list after relocation.

Signed-off-by: Angelo Durgehello <angelo.dureghello@timesys.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Nelson <eric@nelint.com>
2020-01-25 12:04:36 -05:00
Marek Vasut
2e89bbefdc blk: Increase cache element size
Cache up to 4 kiB entries. 4 kiB is the default block size on ext4, yet
the underlying block layer devices usually report support for 512B . In
most cases, the 512B support is emulated (ie. SD cards, SSDs, USB sticks
etc.) and the real block size of those devices is much bigger.

To avoid performance degradation with such devices and FS setup, bump
the maximum cache entry size to 4 kiB.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Cc: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
2019-01-15 15:28:53 -05:00
Tom Rini
83d290c56f SPDX: Convert all of our single license tags to Linux Kernel style
When U-Boot started using SPDX tags we were among the early adopters and
there weren't a lot of other examples to borrow from.  So we picked the
area of the file that usually had a full license text and replaced it
with an appropriate SPDX-License-Identifier: entry.  Since then, the
Linux Kernel has adopted SPDX tags and they place it as the very first
line in a file (except where shebangs are used, then it's second line)
and with slightly different comment styles than us.

In part due to community overlap, in part due to better tag visibility
and in part for other minor reasons, switch over to that style.

This commit changes all instances where we have a single declared
license in the tag as both the before and after are identical in tag
contents.  There's also a few places where I found we did not have a tag
and have introduced one.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
2018-05-07 09:34:12 -04:00
Eric Nelson
e40cf34a29 drivers: block: add block device cache
Add a block device cache to speed up repeated reads of block devices by
various filesystems.

This small amount of cache can dramatically speed up filesystem
operations by skipping repeated reads of common areas of a block
device (typically directory structures).

This has shown to have some benefit on FAT filesystem operations of
loading a kernel and RAM disk, but more dramatic benefits on ext4
filesystems when the kernel and/or RAM disk are spread across
multiple extent header structures as described in commit fc0fc50.

The cache is implemented through a minimal list (block_cache) maintained
in most-recently-used order and count of the current number of entries
(cache_count). It uses a maximum block count setting to prevent copies
of large block reads and an upper bound on the number of cached areas.

The maximum number of entries in the cache defaults to 32 and the maximum
number of blocks per cache entry has a default of 2, which has shown to
produce the best results on testing of ext4 and FAT filesystems.

The 'blkcache' command (enabled through CONFIG_CMD_BLOCK_CACHE) allows
changing these values and can be used to tune for a particular filesystem
layout.

Signed-off-by: Eric Nelson <eric@nelint.com>
2016-04-01 17:18:27 -04:00