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From: cyril@ti.com (Cyril Chemparathy)
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 10:42:21 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v7 01/10] ARM: davinci: move private EDMA API to arm/common
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On 02/05/2013 07:41 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 04:54:45PM -0500, Cyril Chemparathy wrote:
>> You're assuming that cookies complete in order.  That is not necessarily
>> true.
>
> Under what circumstances is that not true?
>

Notably when hardware can prioritize certain classes of traffic over 
others, for instance with data center bridging mechanisms.