From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: adam@yggdrasil.com, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, willy@debian.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] generic device DMA implementation
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 12:29:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212061829.gB6ITAt03038@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> of "Fri, 06 Dec 2002 10:17:15 PST." <20021206.101715.113691767.davem@redhat.com>
davem@redhat.com said:
> Specifically, it took years to get most developers confortable with
> pci_alloc_consitent() and friends. I totally fear that asking them to
> now add cache flushing stuff to their drivers takes the complexity way
> over the edge.
I have no plans ever to do that. It's only a tiny minority of drivers that
should ever need to know the awful guts of cache flushing, and such drivers
are already implementing the cache flushes now.
How about (as Adam suggested) two dma allocation API's
1) dma_alloc_consistent which behaves identically to pci_alloc_consistent
2) dma_alloc which can take the conformance flag and can be used to tidy up
the drivers that need to know about cache flushing.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-06 18:21 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 [this message]
2002-12-06 18:31 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-06 18:40 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-06 18:42 ` David S. Miller
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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