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On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 11:26:57AM +0000, Russell King wrote: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 08:45:30PM +1100, David Gibson wrote: > > Actually, no, since my idea was to remove the "consistent_alloc()" > > path from the driver entirely - leaving only the map/sync approach. > > That gives a result which is correct everywhere (afaict) but (as > > you've since pointed out) will perform poorly on platforms where the > > map/sync operations are expensive. > As I've also pointed out in the past couple of days, doing this will > mean that you then need to teach the drivers to align structures to > cache line boundaries. Otherwise, you _will_ get into a situation > where you _will_ loose data. Sure, but that's already an issue with the current streaming DMA API. -- David Gibson | For every complex problem there is a david@gibson.dropbear.id.au | solution which is simple, neat and | wrong. http://www.ozlabs.org/people/dgibson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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