From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Mark Mason <mason@postdiluvian.org>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: libata/sata_sil24 cache alignment problem?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:12:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080212221257.12eeab13@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080212180254.GA28237@postdiluvian.org>
> Has anyone else reported a problem like this? It requires
> non-coherent DMA, and a lack of a cache invalidate instruction, and
> one of the drivers that has this problem (it looks like sata_qstor
> does too, I haven't looked at others), so maybe that doesn't cover
> any other architectures.
Nobody has, not even PA-RISC which is normally guaranteed to make life
miserable in the caching area but I agree entirely with your diagnosis
and that buffer should indeed be marked cache aligned
> I can provide a patch if you're interested.
Please do.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-12 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-12 18:02 libata/sata_sil24 cache alignment problem? Mark Mason
2008-02-12 22:12 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-02-12 23:36 ` James Bottomley
2008-02-13 2:13 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-13 2:32 ` James Bottomley
2008-02-13 18:47 ` Mark Mason
2008-02-13 20:21 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-13 21:25 ` Mark Mason
2008-02-14 0:21 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-14 3:05 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-14 9:44 ` [PATCH] libata: align ap->sector_buf to cacheline Tejun Heo
2008-02-14 9:48 ` [PATCH] scsi: align shost->hostdata " Tejun Heo
2008-02-14 15:05 ` James Bottomley
2008-02-14 22:49 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-15 18:57 ` James Bottomley
2008-02-21 2:32 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-13 18:51 ` libata/sata_sil24 cache alignment problem? Mark Mason
2008-02-12 23:25 ` Thomas Evans
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