On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 16:52 -0600, Jonathan Haws wrote:

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Jonathan Haws wrote:

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I had thought about using MTD, but decided against it because with
previous benchmarking that we did with MTD and our custom driver,

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found that our custom driver was about 10x faster.

Ouch.  Any idea where the slowdown is coming from?

From what I remember (I would have to dig up notes to make sure) it is something to do with MTD looking for a signal to go high that is processed a bunch before MTD even sees it.  Our flash produces a hardware ready signal that we are triggering off of to move on.  MTD took much longer to report to us that the hardware was ready.

Thanks

It would be interesting to know in more detail what is was. If we have a
10x performance increase hiding from for us I would be very interested
in knowing where it is.

Are you using some custom command to the flash that the generic chip
drivers in Linux is not yet supporting ?