From: Jes Sorensen <jes@linuxcare.com>
To: Gérard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Ion Badulescu <ionut@cs.columbia.edu>, Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.
Date: 12 Feb 2001 20:01:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3n1brafoj.fsf@lxplus015.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10102100932360.1117-100000@linux.local>
In-Reply-To: Gérard Roudier's message of "Sat, 10 Feb 2001 09:48:41 +0100 (CET)"
>>>>> "Gérard" == Gérard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr> writes:
Gérard> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>> DMA to main memory normally invalidates those lines in the CPU
>> cache rather than the cache snooping and updating its view of them.
Gérard> In PCI, it is the Memory Write and Invalidate PCI transaction
Gérard> that is intended to allow core-logics to optimize DMA this
Gérard> way. For normal Memory Write PCI transactions or when the
Gérard> core-logic is aliasing MWI to MW, the snooping may well
Gérard> happen. All that stuff, very probably, varies a lot depending
Gérard> on the core-logic.
In fact one has to look out for this and disable the feature in some
cases. On the acenic not disabling Memory Write and Invalidate costs
~20% on performance on some systems.
Jes
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-07 19:52 [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device davej
2001-02-07 19:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-07 20:34 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-02-08 4:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-08 1:52 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-08 20:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-08 21:18 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-08 21:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-08 22:05 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-09 19:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-09 20:07 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-09 20:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-09 20:21 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-09 20:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-08 21:43 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-02-08 21:46 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-09 21:43 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-02-09 21:52 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-12 18:54 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-02-14 1:35 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-10 14:48 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-02-08 21:26 ` Donald Becker
2001-02-08 22:16 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-09 0:09 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-09 0:44 ` Donald Becker
2001-02-09 0:47 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-09 10:49 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-09 23:32 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-09 23:35 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-10 8:48 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-02-12 19:01 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2001-02-13 13:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-13 20:29 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-14 2:05 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-14 20:10 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-02-14 15:39 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-02-17 21:34 ` David S. Miller
2001-02-19 11:00 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-02-09 21:42 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-02-09 22:56 ` Donald Becker
2001-02-12 18:54 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-02-14 1:20 ` Donald Becker
2001-02-14 12:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-14 12:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-14 12:54 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-14 13:05 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-14 13:38 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-02-14 15:35 ` Jes Sorensen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-02-14 16:54 Petr Vandrovec
2001-02-15 16:09 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-02-07 18:42 davej
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