Re: Uncached memory allocator for ia64.

David Mosberger
2004-09-15T11:14:16Z

>>>>> 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