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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Workaround for USB DMA bugs
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 13:48:09 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020404034809.GL21034@zax> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CABC065.6050107@embeddededge.com>


On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:54:29PM -0500, Dan Malek wrote:
>
> David Gibson wrote:
>
>
> >It's becoming easier though, with the __cacheline_aligned macro.  Plus
> >I think if the buffer is individually kmalloc()ed it will be properly
> >aligned.
>
> Alignment is only half the problem.  You have to ensure the object is
> modulo cache line size as well.  You can't be sharing cache lines subject
> to DMA with other DMA or processor core data.

Oh, right, yes.  That was actually what I was meaning when I said
"aligned" (sort of aligned at both ends), forgetting that the normal
meaning only applies to the start address.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-04  3:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-03  2:43 Workaround for USB DMA bugs David Gibson
2002-04-03  8:17 ` Armin
2002-04-03 17:39   ` Frank Rowand
2002-04-03 17:49   ` Dan Malek
2002-04-03 20:43     ` David Blythe
2002-04-03 23:34       ` David Gibson
2002-04-03  9:45 ` "David Müller (ELSOFT AG)"
2002-04-03 23:35   ` David Gibson
2002-04-03 17:42 ` Dan Malek
2002-04-03 23:40   ` David Gibson
2002-04-04  2:54     ` Dan Malek
2002-04-04  3:48       ` David Gibson [this message]
2002-04-04  4:09         ` Dan Malek
2002-04-04  5:23           ` David Gibson
2002-04-04  6:08             ` Dan Malek
2002-04-04  6:30               ` David Gibson
2002-04-04 20:21                 ` David Blythe
2002-04-04 12:35       ` Brad Parker
2002-04-04 14:12         ` Dan Malek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-04  4:19 Jeremy Rosen
2002-04-04  6:16 ` Dan Malek
2002-04-04  6:32   ` David Gibson
2002-04-04  6:40 Rosen Jeremy
2002-04-04  6:52 ` David Gibson

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