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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] I/O space write barrier
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:22:27 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096939347.24537.2.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096936344.2674.198.camel@cube>

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 10:32, Albert Cahalan wrote:


> Ideally, it would be eieio, and the eieio in each
> of the IO operations would be removed. Finding and
> fixing all the drivers that break looks impossible
> though; most driver developers will be on x86 boxes.

I don't agree. IO operations shouldn't be relaxed by
default. That's really asking too much of driver writers

Ben.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-05  1:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-04 20:39 [PATCH] I/O space write barrier Albert Cahalan
2004-10-04 21:20 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-10-05  0:32   ` Albert Cahalan
2004-10-05  1:22     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-10-05  2:26       ` Jesse Barnes
2004-10-05  3:04         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-05 15:33           ` Jesse Barnes
2004-10-05 22:41             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-05 23:09               ` Jesse Barnes
2004-10-05 23:57               ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-06  1:45                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-05  2:33     ` Jesse Barnes
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-21 23:13 Jesse Barnes
2004-10-22  1:01 ` Grant Grundler
2004-10-22  3:05   ` Jesse Barnes
2004-10-22  4:26     ` Greg Banks
2004-10-22 15:26     ` Grant Grundler
2004-10-05 22:38 Jesse Barnes
2004-09-27 18:03 Jesse Barnes
2004-09-29 10:36 ` Greg Banks
2004-09-29 20:35   ` David S. Miller
2004-09-29 20:43     ` Jesse Barnes
2004-09-29 20:50       ` David S. Miller
2004-09-30  2:23         ` Greg Banks
2004-09-29 22:55 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-09-30  7:15   ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-09-30 21:21     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2004-10-16  0:38       ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-10-16  3:20         ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-16  3:31           ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-09-22 15:45 Jesse Barnes

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