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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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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-12 19:06 UTC|newest]

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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