From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: frival@zk3.dec.com, paulus@samba.org, Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, torvalds@transmeta.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jay.estabrook@compaq.com,
rth@twiddle.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change name of rep_nop
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 00:06:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14658.1002582388@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011008.154650.48796051.davem@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011008.154650.48796051.davem@redhat.com> <1573466920.1002300846@mbligh.des.sequent.com> <15294.24873.866942.423260@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <13962.1002580586@redhat.com>
davem@redhat.com said:
> Yes, I know the text isn't there, but that is the implication. Add
> the text, don't add a stupid "simon_says.." interface.
> The mtrr stuff, if it really does need the flush, should probably make
> it's own macro/inline with a huge comment about it explaining why the
> flush is actually needed.
It's not just mtrr stuff, and it's not just arch-specific code either. In
some cases, there is a need for a function which actually does flush the
cache.
Feel free to suggest an alternative name for it, as long as it's not
'wbinvd' - I would have picked flush_cache_all(), but that is already taken
by a function which generally doesn't actually flush the cache :)
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-08 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-05 10:46 [PATCH] change name of rep_nop Paul Mackerras
2001-10-05 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-05 18:06 ` Peter Rival
2001-10-05 23:28 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-10-05 23:54 ` Martin J. Bligh
2001-10-06 1:40 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-10-08 19:27 ` Peter Rival
2001-10-08 22:36 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-08 22:46 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-08 23:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 23:24 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-08 23:30 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-08 23:33 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-09 5:01 ` George Greer
2001-10-09 10:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-09 11:30 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-09 12:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-09 12:15 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 22:49 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 23:06 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-10-08 23:08 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-08 23:42 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-08 23:46 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-08 23:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-09 0:03 ` David Woodhouse
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-09 8:51 Etienne Lorrain
2001-10-09 11:30 ` Alan Cox
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