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SubjectRe: howto use ioremap_wc?
On 06/02/2008 12:27 PM, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
>> Ok this leads to a question: since write combining is effectively an
>> extension (eg relaxation) to uncached, how much do you care if you
>> actually get uncached? Eg can you just use the "WC" function even for
>> the case where you get an uncached mapping ?
>>
>>
>
> WC is strictly required for our "wcfifo" path,




To be more accurate about the above statement, that codepath will still
work correctly even if the mapping ends-up being uncached, but that
could lead to a 16X slowdown on some machines, since that path was
really designed for the WC case.


Anyway that codepath does not really matter as Brice mentioned
afterwards :-)



> but this path is actually
> not so important nowadays. It is disabled by default and might even be
> removed in the future. So, no, myri10ge itself does not really need to
> know whether the mapping is actually WC.
>




Loic



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