From: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>
Cc: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] I/O space write barrier
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:26:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098419164.21421.58.camel@hole.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410212205.51672.jbarnes@sgi.com>
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 13:05, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> I think Greg had some ideas about other
> things to cover as well. Greg?
You've done most of the stuff I wanted, but it would be nice to see:
* a mention of the read-to-flush-writes technique and why mmiowb
is better
* an example of how and where to use read_relaxed and a description
of why its better than read
Greg.
--
Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-22 4:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-21 23:13 [PATCH] I/O space write barrier Jesse Barnes
2004-10-22 1:01 ` Grant Grundler
2004-10-22 3:05 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-10-22 4:26 ` Greg Banks [this message]
2004-10-22 15:26 ` Grant Grundler
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