This improves the time to mount 512MiB of NAND flash on my OLPC prototype
by about 4%. We used to read the last page of the eraseblock twice -- once
to find the offset of the summary node, and again to actually _read_ the
summary node. Now we read the last page only once, and read more only if
we need to.
We also don't allocate a new buffer just for the summary code -- we use
the buffer which was already allocated for the scan. Better still, if the
'buffer' for the scan is actually just a pointer directly into NOR flash,
we use that too, avoiding the memcpy() which we used to do.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
fs/jffs2/summary.c: In function ‘jffs2_sum_write_data’:
fs/jffs2/summary.c:658: warning: format ‘%zd’ expects type ‘signed size_t’, but argument 4 has type ‘uint32_t’
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Reduce the nr. of pointer dereferences in fs/jffs2/summary.c
Benefits:
- micro speed optimization due to fewer pointer derefs
- generated code is slightly smaller
- better readability
(The first two sound like a compiler problem but I'll go with the third. dwmw2).
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Simplify the debugging code further.
Update the TODO list
Signed-off-by: Artem B. Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The goal of summary is to speed up the mount time. Erase block summary (EBS)
stores summary information at the end of every (closed) erase block. It is
no longer necessary to scan all nodes separetly (and read all pages of them)
just read this "small" summary, where every information is stored which is
needed at mount time.
This summary information is stored in a JFFS2_FEATURE_RWCOMPAT_DELETE. During
the mount process if there is no summary info the orignal scan process will
be executed. EBS works with NAND and NOR flashes, too.
There is a user space tool called sumtool to generate this summary
information for a JFFS2 image.
Signed-off-by: Ferenc Havasi <havasi@inf.u-szeged.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
