From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: tom.leiming@gmail.com, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] asm-generic:remove calling flush_write_buffers() in dma_sync_*_for_cpu
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:48:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090629184808.GB9401@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906291822.18334.arnd@arndb.de>
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:22:17PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> As mentioned, the definition of flush_write_buffers() seems a little dodgy,
> I would feel much more comfortable with putting it into the architecture
> specific code or using one of the existing common barriers, since we already
> have so many of them.
Yeah true. We should remove this function if we see that it is not required.
Joerg
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-28 14:39 [PATCH][RFC] asm-generic:remove calling flush_write_buffers() in dma_sync_*_for_cpu tom.leiming
2009-06-28 15:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-06-29 12:31 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-06-29 13:51 ` Ming Lei
2009-06-29 14:45 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-06-29 14:54 ` Ming Lei
2009-06-29 15:44 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-06-29 16:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-06-29 16:31 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-29 16:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-06-29 17:16 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-30 12:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-06-30 12:40 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-30 12:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-06-30 13:09 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-30 13:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-07 1:54 ` Ming Lei
2009-07-07 7:48 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-07-07 13:43 ` Ming Lei
2009-07-07 14:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-07 14:55 ` Ming Lei
2009-07-07 15:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-07 17:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-07-07 17:33 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-06-29 18:47 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-06-29 19:10 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-29 19:24 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-06-29 18:48 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
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