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From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] pio barriers
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:00:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805672@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805669@msgid-missing>

Actually, I was thinking that for most platforms, mf.a should do a
'flushbus' (i.e. act as a barrier for all previous pio reads/writes).
Of course, for SN, we'll need to do other stuff too, so I'd like to
make a machine vector.

Jesse

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 04:57:33PM -0600, Jack Steiner wrote:
> There is a macro in io.h
> 
> 	#define __ia64_mf_a()   __asm__ __volatile__ ("mf.a" ::: "memory")
> 
> 
> However, it is not clear to me when a mf.a is actually required?? Does
> anyone have an opinion?? I dont see any clear need for it. Seems like places
> where we might want to use it actually require a flushbus(). 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-10 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-10 22:47 [Linux-ia64] pio barriers Jesse Barnes
2001-12-10 22:57 ` Jack Steiner
2001-12-10 23:00 ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2001-12-10 23:58 ` David Mosberger
2001-12-11  0:23 ` Jesse Barnes
2001-12-11  0:44 ` David Mosberger
2001-12-11  0:55 ` Jesse Barnes
2001-12-11  5:30 ` David Mosberger

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