mmc_spi: speedup for slow cards, less wear-out

Speedup for slow cards by transfering more data at once. This patch also reduces the amount of wear-out of the flash blocks because fewer partial blocks are written. Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Muees <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <[email protected]>
caferrari · Jun 13, 2009 · 5cf20aa · 5cf20aa
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diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c b/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c
@@ -97,6 +97,14 @@
  */
 #define r1b_timeout		(HZ * 3)
 
+/* One of the critical speed parameters is the amount of data which may
+ * be transfered in one command. If this value is too low, the SD card
+ * controller has to do multiple partial block writes (argggh!). With
+ * today (2008) SD cards there is little speed gain if we transfer more
+ * than 64 KBytes at a time. So use this value until there is any indication
+ * that we should do more here.
+ */
+#define MMC_SPI_BLOCKSATONCE	128
 
 /****************************************************************************/
 
@@ -1366,6 +1374,10 @@ static int mmc_spi_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
 
 	mmc->ops = &mmc_spi_ops;
 	mmc->max_blk_size = MMC_SPI_BLOCKSIZE;
+	mmc->max_hw_segs = MMC_SPI_BLOCKSATONCE;
+	mmc->max_phys_segs = MMC_SPI_BLOCKSATONCE;
+	mmc->max_req_size = MMC_SPI_BLOCKSATONCE * MMC_SPI_BLOCKSIZE;
+	mmc->max_blk_count = MMC_SPI_BLOCKSATONCE;
 
 	mmc->caps = MMC_CAP_SPI;