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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	Dave Miller <davem@redhat.com>,
	bzolnier@gmail.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, mattjreimer@gmail.com,
	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] block: fix PIO cache coherency bug, take 2
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 17:37:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060605163752.GE26666@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1149524202.3489.30.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 11:16:42AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 16:48 +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > When does the zero copy case occur?
> 
> Almost all user initiated I/O.  Glibc tends to implement this as mmap
> internally.

Ah, so you _are_ talking about something different from what I'm
talking about.  I'm concentrating _solely_ on the _read_ side,
and all my responses so far have been concerned about that only.

Anyway, I think this discussion has become meaningless since we've
been talking at cross purposes for the entire thread.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-05 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-04  3:41 [PATCHSET] block: fix PIO cache coherency bug, take 2 Tejun Heo
2006-06-04  3:41 ` [PATCH 1/5] arm: implement flush_kernel_dcache_page() Tejun Heo
2006-06-04  3:41   ` Tejun Heo
2006-06-04  3:49   ` [PATCH 1/5] (REPOST) " Tejun Heo
2006-06-04  6:45   ` [PATCH 1/5] " David Miller
2006-06-04  6:53     ` Tejun Heo
2006-06-04  7:04       ` David Miller
2006-06-04  3:41 ` [PATCH 3/5] libata: add cpu cache flushes after kmapping and modifying a page Tejun Heo
2006-06-04  3:41   ` Tejun Heo
2006-06-04  3:41 ` [PATCH 2/5] ide: " Tejun Heo
2006-06-04  3:41   ` Tejun Heo
2006-06-04  8:17   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-06-04  9:09     ` Tejun Heo
2006-06-04  3:41 ` [PATCH 5/5] md: " Tejun Heo
2006-06-04  3:41   ` Tejun Heo
2006-06-04  3:41 ` [PATCH 4/5] SCSI: " Tejun Heo
2006-06-04  3:41   ` Tejun Heo
2006-06-04  8:20   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-06-04  9:13     ` Tejun Heo
2006-06-04 20:24       ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-06-04 20:44 ` [PATCHSET] block: fix PIO cache coherency bug, take 2 Russell King
2006-06-04 22:23   ` Russell King
2006-06-05 14:27     ` James Bottomley
2006-06-05 14:44       ` Russell King
2006-06-05 15:24         ` James Bottomley
2006-06-05 15:34           ` Russell King
2006-06-05 15:47             ` James Bottomley
2006-06-05 15:48               ` Russell King
2006-06-05 16:16                 ` James Bottomley
2006-06-05 16:37                   ` Russell King [this message]
2006-06-05 13:43   ` James Bottomley
2006-06-06 11:00     ` Miklos Szeredi

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