mmc: fix async request mechanism for sequential read scenarios

When current request is running on the bus and if next request fetched
by mmcqd is NULL, mmc context (mmcqd thread) gets blocked until the
current request completes. This means that if new request comes in while
the mmcqd thread is blocked, this new request can not be prepared in
parallel to current ongoing request. This may result in delaying the new
request execution and increase it's latency.

This change allows to wake up the MMC thread on new request arrival.
Now once the MMC thread is woken up, a new request can be fetched and
prepared in parallel to the current running request which means this new
request can be started immediately after the current running request
completes.

With this change read throughput is improved by 16%.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Dorfman <kdorfman@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Seungwon Jeon <tgih.jun@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mmc/card.h b/include/linux/mmc/card.h
index 5c69315d60c..be2500a4992 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmc/card.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmc/card.h
@@ -187,6 +187,18 @@ struct sdio_func_tuple;
 
 #define SDIO_MAX_FUNCS		7
 
+enum mmc_blk_status {
+	MMC_BLK_SUCCESS = 0,
+	MMC_BLK_PARTIAL,
+	MMC_BLK_CMD_ERR,
+	MMC_BLK_RETRY,
+	MMC_BLK_ABORT,
+	MMC_BLK_DATA_ERR,
+	MMC_BLK_ECC_ERR,
+	MMC_BLK_NOMEDIUM,
+	MMC_BLK_NEW_REQUEST,
+};
+
 /* The number of MMC physical partitions.  These consist of:
  * boot partitions (2), general purpose partitions (4) in MMC v4.4.
  */