Re: [PATCH] ide: New libata driver for OCTEON SOC Compact Flash interface.

[Chad Reese <kreese@caviumnetworks.com>]

Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>> We need to be careful not to be anti-social by filling the FIFO.  Once 
>> the FIFO is filled other cores will be starved of I/O resources.
> 
>     It's not the first time I'm seeing this driver, so I'm familiar with the 
> trick. Altho I didn't realize that this abuses the shared write buffer.

There is a FIFO between the bootbus and the cores separate from the
normal Octeon per core write buffer. This fifo is shared will all other
cores and IO units for bootbus access. If the fifo overflows then IOs
other than the bootbus are affected.

Chad