Re: UBI fastmap updates

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Tue Aug 07 2012 - 03:30:16 EST


Am 07.08.2012 06:21, schrieb Artem Bityutskiy:
> On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 19:36 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> I think we enable fastmap only if a MTD device has more than
>> UBI_FM_MAX_START*2 PEBs.
>> Any comments?
>
> With double space one can make it power-cut tolerant, because you should
> be able to have either old or new fastmap at any point of time.

UBI_FM_MAX_START*2 has nothing do to with the Fastmap size.
IMHO we need a threshold where Fastmap makes sense.
Technically Fastmap can only be used if a MTD device has >= UBI_FM_MAX_START
PEBs.
But does this makes sense? Fastmap was invented to speedup attaching on *large* MTDs,
The benefit in small MTDs is very little.

Thanks,
//richard

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