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Commit 62649165 ("lib: sparse: Make CHUNK_TYPE_RAW buffer aligned") fixed cache alignment for systems with a D-CACHE. However it introduced some performance regressions [1] on system flashing huge images, such as Android. On AM62x SK EVM, we also observe such performance penalty: Sending sparse 'super' 1/2 (768793 KB) OKAY [ 23.954s] Writing 'super' OKAY [ 75.926s] Sending sparse 'super' 2/2 (629819 KB) OKAY [ 19.641s] Writing 'super' OKAY [ 62.849s] Finished. Total time: 182.474s The reason for this is that we use an arbitrary small buffer (info->blksz * 100) for transferring. Fix it by using a bigger buffer (info->blksz * FASTBOOT_MAX_BLK_WRITE) as suggested in the original's patch review [2]. With this patch, performance impact is mitigated: Sending sparse 'super' 1/2 (768793 KB) OKAY [ 23.912s] Writing 'super' ...
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