From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933022AbWF2V7r (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:59:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933018AbWF2V7o (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:59:44 -0400 Received: from mx.pathscale.com ([64.160.42.68]:62865 "EHLO mx.pathscale.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933006AbWF2V7j (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:59:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 39 of 39] IB/ipath - use streaming copy in RDMA interrupt handler to reduce packet loss From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" To: David Miller Cc: akpm@osdl.org, rdreier@cisco.com, mst@mellanox.co.il, openib-general@openib.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060629.145027.41636491.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1b00209ef20a0e7893d8.1151617290@eng-12.pathscale.com> <20060629.145027.41636491.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:59:37 -0700 Message-Id: <1151618377.10886.23.camel@chalcedony.pathscale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 14:50 -0700, David Miller wrote: > A facility like this doesn't belong in some arbitrary driver layer. > It belongs as a generic facility the whole kernel could make use > of. It could, indeed. In fact, we had that discussion here before I sent this patch in. It presumably wants to live in lib/, and acquire a more generic name. What name will capture the uncached-read-but-cached-write semantics in a useful fashion? memcpy_nc?