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authorStewart Smith <stewart@linux.ibm.com>2018-12-03 11:05:42 +1100
committerStewart Smith <stewart@linux.ibm.com>2018-12-11 22:37:41 -0600
commit1534ab1dca13403ade020be26989a95156f321e0 (patch)
tree12de797958b26095921ef8e3b210f140626b044b
parenteb0226273239d806f404712aacc42961130c7079 (diff)
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libflash/file: greatly increase perf of file_erase()
Do 4096 byte chunks not 8 byte chunks. A ffspart invocation constructing a 64MB PNOR goes from a couple of seconds to ~0.1seconds with this patch. Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.ibm.com>
-rw-r--r--libflash/file.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/libflash/file.c b/libflash/file.c
index 49f6177..72765b5 100644
--- a/libflash/file.c
+++ b/libflash/file.c
@@ -117,15 +117,17 @@ static int file_write(struct blocklevel_device *bl, uint64_t dst, const void *sr
*/
static int file_erase(struct blocklevel_device *bl, uint64_t dst, uint64_t len)
{
- unsigned long long int d = ULLONG_MAX;
+ char buf[4096];
int i = 0;
int rc;
+ memset(buf, ~0, sizeof(buf));
+
while (len - i > 0) {
- rc = file_write(bl, dst + i, &d, len - i > sizeof(d) ? sizeof(d) : len - i);
+ rc = file_write(bl, dst + i, buf, len - i > sizeof(buf) ? sizeof(buf) : len - i);
if (rc)
return rc;
- i += len - i > sizeof(d) ? sizeof(d) : len - i;
+ i += (len - i > sizeof(buf)) ? sizeof(buf) : len - i;
}
return 0;