From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: James.Bottomley@steeleye.com
Cc: adam@yggdrasil.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, willy@debian.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] generic device DMA implementation
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 10:42:21 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021206.104221.103230489.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200212061840.gB6Ieo803212@localhost.localdomain>
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 12:40:49 -0600
Yes, we've discussed that too...but not come to a conclusion. The problem is
really that if you call dma_alloc and pass in the DMA_CONFORMANCE_NON_CONSISTEN
T flag, what you're saying is "This driver implements all the correct cache
flushes and can cope with inconsistent memory. Please give me the type of
memory that's most efficient for the platform I'm running on.". The driver
isn't asking give me a specific type of memory, it's telling the platform what
it's capabilities are.
Any thoughts on naming would be most welcome.
How about just making a dma_alloc_$(NEWNAME)(), and consistent ports
can just alias that to dma_alloc_consistent()?
The only question is $(NEWNAME). "inconsistent" might be ok, but it's
maybe too similar to "consistent" for my taste.
How about dma_alloc_noncoherent(). I like this one, comments?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-06 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-06 16:19 [RFC] generic device DMA implementation Adam J. Richter
2002-12-06 16:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-12-06 18:17 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-06 18:29 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-06 18:31 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-06 18:40 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-06 18:42 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2002-12-06 21:04 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-12-07 10:19 ` David Gibson
2002-12-06 18:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-12-06 18:38 ` David S. Miller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-07 14:37 Adam J. Richter
2002-12-07 4:12 Adam J. Richter
2002-12-06 22:52 Adam J. Richter
2002-12-06 22:17 Adam J. Richter
2002-12-06 22:26 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-06 22:29 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-06 22:48 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-06 22:49 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-06 22:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-12-06 17:39 Adam J. Richter
2002-12-06 18:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-12-06 17:07 Adam J. Richter
2002-12-06 16:48 James Bottomley
2002-12-06 7:41 Adam J. Richter
2002-12-06 15:50 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-06 7:14 Adam J. Richter
2002-12-06 16:26 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-06 17:48 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-07 9:56 ` David Gibson
2002-12-07 9:45 ` David Gibson
2002-12-07 11:26 ` Russell King
2002-12-08 5:28 ` David Gibson
2002-12-06 6:15 David Brownell
2002-12-06 2:08 Adam J. Richter
2002-12-06 2:53 ` David Gibson
2002-12-06 4:03 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-05 20:27 Adam J. Richter
2002-12-05 17:49 Manfred Spraul
2002-12-06 0:08 ` David Gibson
2002-12-05 12:21 Adam J. Richter
2002-12-05 12:44 ` Russell King
2002-12-05 12:13 Adam J. Richter
2002-12-05 11:57 Adam J. Richter
2002-12-06 0:06 ` David Gibson
2002-12-05 5:20 Adam J. Richter
2002-12-05 3:02 Adam J. Richter
2002-12-05 6:15 ` David Gibson
2002-12-05 1:21 Adam J. Richter
2002-12-05 2:40 ` David Gibson
2002-12-05 2:49 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-05 6:12 ` David Gibson
2002-12-05 0:43 Adam J. Richter
2002-12-05 0:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-12-05 2:02 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-04 17:47 James Bottomley
2002-12-04 18:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-12-04 19:36 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-04 21:19 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-04 21:21 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-04 21:42 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-05 5:44 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-04 21:46 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-05 2:31 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-05 3:06 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-05 5:02 ` David Gibson
2002-12-05 11:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-12-05 11:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-05 15:12 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-05 0:47 ` David Gibson
2002-12-05 0:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-12-05 1:44 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-05 2:38 ` David Gibson
2002-12-05 3:13 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-05 5:05 ` David Gibson
2002-12-05 15:03 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-05 23:54 ` David Gibson
2002-12-05 3:17 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-05 6:06 ` David Gibson
2002-12-05 6:43 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-05 23:44 ` David Gibson
2002-12-06 2:23 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-05 3:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-12-05 6:04 ` David Gibson
2002-12-05 16:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-12-05 23:59 ` David Gibson
2002-12-05 11:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-12-05 11:35 ` Russell King
2002-12-05 15:24 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-06 0:01 ` David Gibson
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