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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 0/4] scsi: ufs: Add Host Performance Booster Support
Hi Daejun,

On 2020-08-05 11:37, Daejun Park wrote:
> Changelog:
>
> v6 -> v7
> 1. Remove UFS feature layer.
> 2. Cleanup for sparse error.
>
> v5 -> v6
> Change base commit to b53293fa662e28ae0cdd40828dc641c09f133405
>
> v4 -> v5
> Delete unused macro define.
>
> v3 -> v4
> 1. Cleanup.
>
> v2 -> v3
> 1. Add checking input module parameter value.
> 2. Change base commit from 5.8/scsi-queue to 5.9/scsi-queue.
> 3. Cleanup for unused variables and label.
>
> v1 -> v2
> 1. Change the full boilerplate text to SPDX style.
> 2. Adopt dynamic allocation for sub-region data structure.
> 3. Cleanup.
>
> NAND flash memory-based storage devices use Flash Translation Layer
> (FTL)
> to translate logical addresses of I/O requests to corresponding flash
> memory addresses. Mobile storage devices typically have RAM with
> constrained size, thus lack in memory to keep the whole mapping table.
> Therefore, mapping tables are partially retrieved from NAND flash on
> demand, causing random-read performance degradation.
>
> To improve random read performance, JESD220-3 (HPB v1.0) proposes HPB
> (Host Performance Booster) which uses host system memory as a cache for
> the
> FTL mapping table. By using HPB, FTL data can be read from host memory
> faster than from NAND flash memory.
>
> The current version only supports the DCM (device control mode).
> This patch consists of 3 parts to support HPB feature.
>
> 1) HPB probe and initialization process
> 2) READ -> HPB READ using cached map information
> 3) L2P (logical to physical) map management
>
> In the HPB probe and init process, the device information of the UFS is
> queried. After checking supported features, the data structure for the
> HPB
> is initialized according to the device information.
>
> A read I/O in the active sub-region where the map is cached is changed
> to
> HPB READ by the HPB.
>
> The HPB manages the L2P map using information received from the
> device. For active sub-region, the HPB caches through ufshpb_map
> request. For the in-active region, the HPB discards the L2P map.
> When a write I/O occurs in an active sub-region area, associated dirty
> bitmap checked as dirty for preventing stale read.
>
> HPB is shown to have a performance improvement of 58 - 67% for random
> read
> workload. [1]
>
> This series patches are based on the 5.9/scsi-queue branch.
>
> [1]:
> https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotstorage17/program/presentation/jeong
>
> Daejun park (4):
> scsi: ufs: Add UFS feature related parameter
> scsi: ufs: Introduce HPB feature
> scsi: ufs: L2P map management for HPB read
> scsi: ufs: Prepare HPB read for cached sub-region
>
> drivers/scsi/ufs/Kconfig | 18 +
> drivers/scsi/ufs/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/scsi/ufs/ufs.h | 12 +
> drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c | 42 +
> drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.h | 9 +
> drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshpb.c | 1926
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshpb.h | 241 +++++
> 7 files changed, 2249 insertions(+)
> created mode 100644 drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshpb.c
> created mode 100644 drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshpb.h

I only gave my reviewed-by tag to the very first patch (changes to
ufshcd.h),
but not the whole series. Please remove those tags accordingly.

Thanks,

Can Guo.

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