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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: segher@kernel.crashing.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org,
	jeff@garzik.org, paulus@samba.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Opinion on ordering of writel vs. stores to RAM
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:54:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adaejuh3nvv.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060911.173208.74750403.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:32:08 -0700 (PDT)")

    David> It's silly because if you just use different interface
    David> names for the different semantics, the caller can ask for
    David> what he wants at the call site and no conditionals are
    David> needed in the implementation.

OTOH that leads to a combinatorial explosion of 8/16/32/64 access
sizes, write combining or not, strongly ordered wrt local memory or
not, relaxed PCI ordering or not, etc. etc.

 - R.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-12  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-09  2:03 Opinion on ordering of writel vs. stores to RAM Paul Mackerras
2006-09-09  2:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-09  3:02   ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-09  3:54     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-09  7:24     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-09  9:34     ` David Miller
2006-09-09  9:55       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-09 10:08         ` David Miller
2006-09-10 17:18           ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-10 19:35             ` Alan Cox
2006-09-10 21:25               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-10 22:23                 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-10 22:18                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-11 13:19                     ` Jes Sorensen
2006-09-10 23:35                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-11  0:12                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-11  0:34                     ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-11  1:04                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-11  1:13                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-11  1:35                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-11  9:02                     ` Alan Cox
2006-09-11  9:23                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-11  0:25                 ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-11  0:54                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-11  1:10                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-11  1:48                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-11  3:53                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-11 18:12                     ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-11  1:00                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-11 18:08                     ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-11 21:32                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-10 20:01             ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-11 13:21               ` David Miller
2006-09-11 14:17                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-12  0:32                   ` David Miller
2006-09-12  0:49                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-12 16:47                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-12  0:54                     ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-09-09 11:16       ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-09  7:23   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-09  9:38     ` David Miller
2006-09-09 15:09     ` Alan Cox
2006-09-10 17:19       ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-10 17:35         ` Michael Buesch
2006-09-10 17:49           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-10 18:02             ` Michael Buesch
2006-09-09 15:08   ` Alan Cox
2006-09-09 18:34   ` Auke Kok
2006-09-09 19:10     ` Patrick McFarland
2006-09-09 15:06 ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-11  5:03 Michael Chan
2006-09-11  5:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-12  4:30 Albert Cahalan
2006-09-12  5:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-12  6:04   ` Albert Cahalan
2006-09-12  6:12     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-12  7:09       ` Albert Cahalan
2006-09-12  7:17         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-12  7:21           ` Albert Cahalan

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