From: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Darin.Johnson@nokia.com
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] consistent_sync and non L1 cache line aligned buffers
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:45:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030715164557.A8616@home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F0B628F30F48064289D8CCC1EE21B7A80C48A8@mvebe001.americas.nokia.com>; from Darin.Johnson@nokia.com on Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:04:24PM -0700
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:04:24PM -0700, Darin.Johnson@nokia.com wrote:
>
> > IMHO, the easiest solution is
> > alignment of buffers.....plus it's likely to be a performance
> > improvement.
>
> True, it's the easiest solution for the kernel developer, but
> requires more work from driver authors. Which is ok, *if* it's
> well documented and everyone knows buffers must be aligned,
> and that's the problem. I think some people implicitly understand
> these issues, and assume that everyone else thinks the same way.
What more do you expect than the "What memory is DMA'able?" section
in Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt?
It's there to refer the developers to. Some maintainers have bugs
in their drivers/subsystems. They just need a patch from the people
that depend on the bug fix.
I know you are now focusing on some 8xx buffer issue but the original
issue was surrounding generic SCSI subsystem bugs.
Regards,
--
Matt Porter
mporter@kernel.crashing.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-15 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-15 23:04 [RFC] consistent_sync and non L1 cache line aligned buffers Darin.Johnson
2003-07-15 23:34 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-07-15 23:50 ` Eugene Surovegin
2003-07-15 23:45 ` Matt Porter [this message]
2003-07-16 14:01 ` Dan Malek
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2003-07-16 0:12 Darin.Johnson
2003-07-15 20:47 Darin.Johnson
[not found] <F0B628F30F48064289D8CCC1EE21B7A80C48A5@mvebe001.americas.n okia.com>
2003-07-15 20:39 ` Eugene Surovegin
2003-07-15 21:26 ` David Blythe
2003-07-15 22:15 ` Dan Malek
2003-07-15 20:18 Darin.Johnson
2003-07-15 4:32 Eugene Surovegin
2003-07-15 15:46 ` Tom Rini
2003-07-15 16:20 ` Eugene Surovegin
2003-07-15 16:25 ` Tom Rini
2003-07-15 16:17 ` Matt Porter
2003-07-15 16:27 ` Eugene Surovegin
2003-07-15 23:51 ` Matt Porter
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