From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 18:06:47 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: ipq40xx: speed up ath10k-caldata extraction
X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a69e101;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Faparcar.git

ipq40xx: speed up ath10k-caldata extraction

Reading and writing to and from flash storage is slow and currently,
the ath10kcal_extract() scripts are even more at an disadvantage
because they use a block size of 1 to be able skip.

This patch reworks the extraction scripts to be much faster and
efficient by reading and writing the calibration data in possibly
one big block.

before: (Tested on a RT-AC58U, which has SPI-NAND).

 # time dd if=/dev/ubi0_1 of=/lib/firmware/... bs=1 skip=4096 count=12064
12064+0 records in
12064+0 records out
real    0m 0.28s
user    0m 0.02s
sys     0m 0.24s

after:

 # time dd if=/dev/ubi0_1 of=/lib/firmware/... bs=12064 skip=4096 count=1 iflag=skip_bytes
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
real    0m 0.01s
user    0m 0.00s
sys     0m 0.00s

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
---

diff --git a/target/linux/ipq40xx/base-files/etc/hotplug.d/firmware/11-ath10k-caldata b/target/linux/ipq40xx/base-files/etc/hotplug.d/firmware/11-ath10k-caldata
index 59a809e792..21d9063fd4 100644
--- a/target/linux/ipq40xx/base-files/etc/hotplug.d/firmware/11-ath10k-caldata
+++ b/target/linux/ipq40xx/base-files/etc/hotplug.d/firmware/11-ath10k-caldata
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ ath10kcal_extract() {
 	[ -n "$mtd" ] || \
 		ath10kcal_die "no mtd device found for partition $part"
 
-	dd if=$mtd of=/lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE bs=1 skip=$offset count=$count 2>/dev/null || \
+	dd if=$mtd of=/lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE iflag=skip_bytes bs=$count skip=$offset count=1 2>/dev/null || \
 		ath10kcal_die "failed to extract calibration data from $mtd"
 }
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ ath10kcal_ubi_extract() {
 	[ -n "$ubi" ] || \
 		ath10kcal_die "no UBI volume found for $part"
 
-	dd if=/dev/$ubi of=/lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE bs=1 skip=$offset count=$count 2>/dev/null || \
+	dd if=/dev/$ubi of=/lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE iflag=skip_bytes bs=$count skip=$offset count=1 2>/dev/null || \
 		ath10kcal_die "failed to extract from $ubi"
 }