From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Ishizaki Kou <kou.ishizaki@toshiba.co.jp>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/11] cell: generalize io-workarounds code
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:50:12 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1207295412.10388.364.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080404.154232.-1300528451.kouish@swc.toshiba.co.jp>
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 15:42 +0900, Ishizaki Kou wrote:
>
> As you pointed, spider I/O functions in Cell blades need 2 step
> indirections by our patch. Shall I make another one for Cell blades
> whose spider I/O functions need one step indirection?
> (But you will need 2 step indirections when you use PCI-ex.)
I think the blades will need the same stuff as celleb since it's
possible to use the PCI-Express on them too.
Maybe an option is to do a if () / else statement rather than a function
pointer in there, it would at least be cheaper in term of CPU cycle
don't you think ? Anyway, do as you prefer.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-04 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-14 12:20 [PATCH 2/11] cell: generalize io-workarounds code Ishizaki Kou
2008-03-24 10:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-03-24 10:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-03-27 11:02 ` Ishizaki Kou
2008-03-27 21:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-02 10:52 ` Ishizaki Kou
2008-04-02 11:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-04 6:42 ` Ishizaki Kou
2008-04-04 7:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-04-09 7:46 ` Ishizaki Kou
2008-04-16 7:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-17 1:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-24 3:07 ` Ishizaki Kou
2008-04-24 3:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-24 3:10 ` Ishizaki Kou
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