Re: 4.14-rc2 on thinkpad x220: out of memory when inserting mmc card

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Oct 02 2017 - 09:04:04 EST


On Mon 2017-10-02 14:06:03, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >> Bounce buffers are being removed from v4.15
>
> As Adrian states, this would make any last bugs go away. I would
> even consider putting this patch this into fixes if it solves the problem.
>
> > although you may experience
> >> performance regression with that:
> >>
> >> https://marc.info/?l=linux-mmc&m=150589778700551
> >
> > Hmm. The performance of this is already pretty bad, I really hope it
> > does not get any worse.
>
> Did you use bounce buffers? Those were improving performance on
> some laptops with TI or Ricoh host controllers and nothing else was
> ever really using it (as can be seen from the commit).

Thinkpad X220... how do I tell if I was using them? I believe so,
because I uncovered bug in them before.

Pavel
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