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From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] lasi scsi driver
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 22:05:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000305220554.A2194@alpha.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000305194652.A9157@abacus.local>; from Philipp Rumpf on Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 07:46:52PM +0100

On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 07:46:52PM +0100, Philipp Rumpf wrote:
> uncacheable main memory is the only sane way to deal with cache-incoherent
> DMA - macros to flush the cache are both slower and harder to add to drivers
> written with the assumption that dma is cache-coherent.

I can't say how things are for PARISC, but in the MIPS world it's usually
better to use cached memory/flush caches than doing uncached accesses.
And adding cache flushes to a driver isn't that big task, if you know
the hardware (been there, done that).

Thomas.

-- 
   This device has completely bogus header. Compaq scores again :-|
It's a host bridge, but it should be called ghost bridge instead ;^)
                                        [Martin `MJ' Mares on linux-kernel]

  reply	other threads:[~2000-03-05 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-03-02 20:42 [parisc-linux] lasi scsi driver Gyula Matics
2000-03-02 21:19 ` Grant Grundler
2000-03-02 21:44   ` Gyula Matics
2000-03-03  0:50     ` [parisc-linux] Lasi Ethernet - update Helge Deller
2000-03-03  2:55       ` Bdale Garbee
2000-03-03 13:14         ` [parisc-linux] Lasi Ethernet - update (fixed!) Helge Deller
2000-03-03  1:34     ` [parisc-linux] lasi scsi driver Helge Deller
2000-03-03 15:52   ` willy
2000-03-03 19:10 ` Jerry Huck
2000-03-04 19:49   ` willy
2000-03-05  5:49     ` Grant Grundler
2000-03-05 14:29       ` [parisc-linux] uncacheable memory willy
2000-03-05 15:57         ` [parisc-linux] uncacheable memory (D370) rob hoppe
2000-03-05 16:05           ` willy
2000-03-06  6:26         ` uncacheable memory Grant Grundler
2000-03-05 18:34       ` [parisc-linux] lasi scsi driver Philipp Rumpf
2000-03-05 18:46   ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-03-05 21:05     ` Thomas Bogendoerfer [this message]
2000-03-07 19:33     ` Jerry Huck
2000-03-07 23:45       ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-03-08  0:33         ` Grant Grundler

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