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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] __cacheline_aligned_in_smp?
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:41:12 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030113094112.GA498@zax.zax> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030113072521.74B842C104@lists.samba.org>

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 06:24:40PM +1100, Paul 'Rusty' Russell wrote:
> Dave: Anton suggested you might have a justification for
> __cacheline_aligned doing something on UP?

It could matter for DMA buffers on UP machines with non-cache coherent
DMA.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-13  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-13  7:24 [PATCH] __cacheline_aligned_in_smp? Rusty Russell
2003-01-13  7:35 ` David S. Miller
2003-01-14  1:10   ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-14  6:32     ` David S. Miller
2003-01-15  8:02       ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-16  7:21         ` David S. Miller
2003-01-21 14:09       ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-13  7:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-14  2:22   ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-13  9:41 ` David Gibson [this message]

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