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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Hubert Feurstein <h.feurstein@gmail.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] imx6qdl: degraded eMMC write performance
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:12:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191213131242.nznq2yhasvfmp7s6@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFfN3gV-kAhDE6=EBJetWT0+T8hgq5tUXAn0qzwK2Q7c8-wsUQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 03:44:52PM +0100, Hubert Feurstein wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've updated barebox for our custom platform from v2015.06.0 to
> v2019.12.0. With the new version I have noticed a much worse write
> performance onto the onboard eMMC.
> 
> With v2015.06.0 the indicated progress of the copy command is very
> smooth. Calling "cp -v /dev/zero /dev/mmc3.root" takes about 80
> seconds for 256MB. But with v2019.12.0 the progress is very bumpy and
> the copy takes about 280 seconds.
> 
> I've tracked this down to this commit which destroys the performance:
> "block: Adjust cache sizes" (b6fef20c1215c6ef0004f6af4a9c4b77af51dc43)

We could just revert this patch. I can't find any workload that gets
faster with b6fef20c1215. It's rather the other way round.

Sascha

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-13 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-10 14:44 Hubert Feurstein
2019-12-10 15:10 ` Sascha Hauer
2019-12-10 15:43   ` Hubert Feurstein
2019-12-10 16:18     ` Sascha Hauer
2019-12-10 17:46       ` Hubert Feurstein
2019-12-13 13:12 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]

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