From: Matthew Wilcox <Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Dino PCI and I/O spaces
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 17:21:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990614172117.K31472@mencheca.ch.genedata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E10tYS4-00066l-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from Alan Cox on Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 04:15:08PM +0100
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 04:15:08PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Also as a btw: PCI I/O port access will suck rocks on HP because we have
> to grab a lock since it is a two stage operation. That may mean we want
> to write smart copy/csum/io and ins* functions for PCI block I/O.
Do we only have to grab a lock on SMP machines, or can we sleep between
the two accesses?
--
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-06-14 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-14 15:15 [parisc-linux] Dino PCI and I/O spaces Alan Cox
1999-06-14 15:21 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
1999-06-14 15:21 ` Alan Cox
1999-06-14 15:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-06-14 16:10 ` Alan Cox
1999-06-14 20:15 ` Grant Grundler
1999-06-14 23:05 ` Alan Cox
1999-06-15 0:48 ` Grant Grundler
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