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From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
To: "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2]Add Variable Page Size and IA64 Support in Intel IOMMU: IA64 Specific Part
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:41:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810030941.42800.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A6AD88C3F2289247BE726C37303E1EB88408AA3E@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Thursday 02 October 2008 11:46:04 am Yu, Fenghua wrote:
> >> --- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> >> +++ b/arch/ia64/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> >> @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ do {                                                \
> >>  #define flush_dcache_mmap_unlock(mapping)    do { } while (0)
> >>
> >>  extern void flush_icache_range (unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
> >> +extern void clflush_cache_range(void *addr, int size);
> >
> >This patch adds clflush_cache_range(), but it's not used anywhere.
> Clflush_cache_range() is used in __iommu_flush_cache() in include/linux/intel-iommu.h.

Oh, OK.  I didn't look hard enough to find __iommu_flush_cache()
(currently in drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c).

Architecturally, I'm surprised that ia64 would need to actually do a
cache flush.  I would think the VT-d hardware would do coherent accesses
which would make the cache flush unnecessary.

Bjorn

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-03 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-01 16:57 [PATCH 2/2]Add Variable Page Size and IA64 Support in Intel IOMMU: IA64 Specific Part Fenghua Yu
2008-10-02 15:51 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-10-02 17:46   ` [PATCH 2/2]Add Variable Page Size and IA64 Support in Intel Yu, Fenghua
2008-10-03 15:41     ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2008-10-04  0:53       ` Yu, Fenghua
2008-10-04  6:09         ` David Woodhouse
2008-10-04 14:17           ` Yu, Fenghua
2008-10-06 14:55         ` [PATCH 2/2]Add Variable Page Size and IA64 Support in Intel IOMMU: IA64 Specific Part Bjorn Helgaas
2008-10-07  0:35           ` Fenghua Yu
2008-11-24 19:53           ` [PATCH 1/2] Enable Pass Through Feature in Intel IOMMU Fenghua Yu
2008-10-07  0:02 ` [PATCH V2 2/2] Add Variable Page Size and IA64 Support in Intel IOMMU: IA64 Specific Part Fenghua Yu

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