From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Uncached memory allocator for ia64.
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:14:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16712.9224.664624.671494@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040914151629.GA21118@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com>
>>>>> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 06:04:51 -0500, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> said:
Robin> That is exactly what it does, but I was wondering if there are other
Robin> examples of drivers that do this. If not, I would still like to
Robin> push for doing the minimum necessary to keep from designing something
Robin> that has no users.
There certainly have been requests for that in the past. I think one
such request came from someone building cluster interconnects. Also,
on some platforms it is helpful to map the AGP memory via
write-combine, though we fixed that particular issue for ia64 by
requiring write-back mapping support.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-15 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-14 15:16 Uncached memory allocator for ia64 Robin Holt
2004-09-15 8:23 ` David Mosberger
2004-09-15 11:04 ` Robin Holt
2004-09-15 11:14 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2004-09-17 14:34 ` Robin Holt
2004-09-23 21:09 ` Robin Holt
2004-09-23 22:12 ` Luck, Tony
2004-09-23 23:01 ` Robin Holt
2004-09-25 12:40 ` Robin Holt
2004-09-29 14:24 ` David Mosberger
2004-09-29 15:43 ` Robin Holt
2004-09-29 16:02 ` David Mosberger
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