From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Please pull drivers/scsi/dec_esp.c from Linus' git
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:35:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43F5C300.10108@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64N.0602171039320.7169@blysk.ds.pg.gda.pl>
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>
>
>>Just make mmiowb() strong enough on those platforms. There's really no
>>reason to introduce yet another variation at this point.
>
>
> It's just horribly slow and an overkill if it's only ordering of
> consecutive writes rather than ordering of a read after a write that has
> to be guaranteed. But perhaps we could keep abusing wmb() for the
> former...
Depends on where it's happening. If it's the CPU doing it before it hits
the bus then wmb() would probably be ok.
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-17 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-13 22:53 Please pull drivers/scsi/dec_esp.c from Linus' git Martin Michlmayr
2006-02-15 15:08 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-02-16 10:17 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-02-16 14:59 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-02-16 15:48 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-02-17 9:12 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-17 10:45 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-02-17 12:35 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2006-02-17 12:51 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-02-17 15:17 ` Jes Sorensen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=43F5C300.10108@sgi.com \
--to=jes@sgi.com \
--cc=linux-mips@linux-mips.org \
--cc=macro@linux-mips.org \
--cc=ralf@linux-mips.org \
--cc=tbm@cyrius.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox