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  1. May 07, 2018
    • Tom Rini's avatar
      SPDX: Convert all of our single license tags to Linux Kernel style · 83d290c5
      Tom Rini authored
      
      When U-Boot started using SPDX tags we were among the early adopters and
      there weren't a lot of other examples to borrow from.  So we picked the
      area of the file that usually had a full license text and replaced it
      with an appropriate SPDX-License-Identifier: entry.  Since then, the
      Linux Kernel has adopted SPDX tags and they place it as the very first
      line in a file (except where shebangs are used, then it's second line)
      and with slightly different comment styles than us.
      
      In part due to community overlap, in part due to better tag visibility
      and in part for other minor reasons, switch over to that style.
      
      This commit changes all instances where we have a single declared
      license in the tag as both the before and after are identical in tag
      contents.  There's also a few places where I found we did not have a tag
      and have introduced one.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
      83d290c5
  2. Apr 11, 2016
  3. Apr 01, 2016
    • Eric Nelson's avatar
      drivers: block: add block device cache · e40cf34a
      Eric Nelson authored
      
      Add a block device cache to speed up repeated reads of block devices by
      various filesystems.
      
      This small amount of cache can dramatically speed up filesystem
      operations by skipping repeated reads of common areas of a block
      device (typically directory structures).
      
      This has shown to have some benefit on FAT filesystem operations of
      loading a kernel and RAM disk, but more dramatic benefits on ext4
      filesystems when the kernel and/or RAM disk are spread across
      multiple extent header structures as described in commit fc0fc50f.
      
      The cache is implemented through a minimal list (block_cache) maintained
      in most-recently-used order and count of the current number of entries
      (cache_count). It uses a maximum block count setting to prevent copies
      of large block reads and an upper bound on the number of cached areas.
      
      The maximum number of entries in the cache defaults to 32 and the maximum
      number of blocks per cache entry has a default of 2, which has shown to
      produce the best results on testing of ext4 and FAT filesystems.
      
      The 'blkcache' command (enabled through CONFIG_CMD_BLOCK_CACHE) allows
      changing these values and can be used to tune for a particular filesystem
      layout.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Nelson <eric@nelint.com>
      e40cf34a
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