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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Optionally flush entire dcache from v6_dma_flush_range
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:30:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101214093054.GB18425@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292302659-1863-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org>

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 08:57:37PM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> From: Arve Hj?nnev?g <arve@android.com>
> 
> If CACHE_FLUSH_RANGE_LIMIT is defined, then the entire dcache will
> be flushed if the requested range is larger than this limit.

This has been talked about before, and it's not the correct place to do
this.  With a scatterlist, you'll end up repeatedly flushing the cache.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-14  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-14  4:57 [PATCH 0/4][RFC] Trivial ARM related Android patches John Stultz
2010-12-14  4:57 ` [PATCH 1/4] avoid mis-detecting some V7 cores in the decompressor John Stultz
2010-12-14  4:57 ` [PATCH 2/4] Optionally flush entire dcache from v6_dma_flush_range John Stultz
2010-12-14  9:30   ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2010-12-14 10:58   ` Catalin Marinas
2010-12-14  4:57 ` [PATCH 3/4] process: Add display of memory around registers when displaying regs John Stultz
2010-12-14  9:34   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-14  4:57 ` [PATCH 4/4] Do not call flush_cache_user_range with mmap_sem held John Stultz
2010-12-14  9:30   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-14 17:51     ` Catalin Marinas
2010-12-14 19:05       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-14 21:08         ` Catalin Marinas
2011-04-04 13:27           ` Catalin Marinas
2011-04-04 13:37             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-04 13:43               ` Catalin Marinas
2011-08-26  7:32                 ` Jiejing.Zhang 
2011-09-05 11:21                   ` Catalin Marinas
2010-12-14 18:18   ` Catalin Marinas

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