Re: [PATCH v4] mmc: documentation of mmc non-blocking request usage and design.

2011-07-06 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 23:35:32 +0200 Per Forlin wrote: > +MMC block driver > + > + > +The issue_rw_rq() in the MMC block driver is made non-blocking. > +The increase in throughput is proportional to the time it takes to > +prepare (major part of preparations are dma_map_sg and dma_un

[PATCH v4] mmc: documentation of mmc non-blocking request usage and design.

2011-07-05 Thread Per Forlin
Documentation about the background and the design of mmc non-blocking. Host driver guidelines to minimize request preparation overhead. Signed-off-by: Per Forlin --- ChangeLog: v2: - Minor updates after proofreading comments from Chris v3: - Minor updates after more comments from Chris v4: - M