Messages in this thread | | | From | akepner@sgi ... | Date | Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:37:07 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] dma: override "dma_flags_set_dmaflush" for sn-ia64 |
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 02:16:32PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > So, let me try to understand ... your hardware allows writes from the > device to pass other writes from the device? Doesn't that violate the > PCI spec? I'm thinking about this (page 43 of PCI 2.3): > ....
I should have stated this more carefully, but it's not a PCI reordering that's being addressed here, it's a reordering that can occur within the NUMA-interconnect.
-- Arthur
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