Messages in this thread | | | From | akepner@sgi ... | Date | Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:55:59 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC/PARTIAL PATCH 0/3] dma: passing "attributes" to dma_map_* routines |
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 12:21:44PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > ... > But the point is that the Altix does something non-standard but which > was later standardised (in a different way) largely so others could also > benefit from the relaxed ordering speedup. >
When you say that Altix does "something ... which was later standardized", what is "something"?
The thing that I'm trying to address here is the reordering that may occur within the NUMA fabric. As far as I'm aware there's no standard for that.
-- Arthur
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