From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>,
Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Define wc_wmb, a write barrier for PCI write combining
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:24:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44049559.80109@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602281302080.4698@chaos.analogic.com>
linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> Also, the
> PCI bus is a FIFO. Nothing gets reordered.
The CPU itself can reorder the write before it hits the PCI bus. I
don't think x86 will do this, but others will.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-28 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-25 4:20 [PATCH] Define wc_wmb, a write barrier for PCI write combining Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-02-25 4:43 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-25 7:34 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-02-25 13:28 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-25 17:20 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-02-25 19:01 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-02-28 17:44 ` Jesse Barnes
2006-02-28 17:50 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-28 17:50 ` Jesse Barnes
2006-02-28 17:52 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-02-28 17:59 ` Jesse Barnes
2006-02-25 14:28 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-25 17:11 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-02-25 17:41 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-28 17:50 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-02-28 17:58 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-28 18:20 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-02-28 19:03 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-28 19:20 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-02-28 19:33 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-28 19:44 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-01 19:20 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-01 19:27 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-01 19:43 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-01 19:49 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-01 20:05 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-01 20:26 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-01 20:35 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-02-28 19:34 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-28 18:22 ` Christopher Friesen
2006-02-28 10:01 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-28 15:42 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-28 16:08 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-28 17:02 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-28 17:13 ` Jesse Barnes
2006-02-28 17:20 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-01 8:16 ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-03-01 8:24 ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-02-28 17:11 ` Jesse Barnes
2006-02-28 17:57 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-02-28 18:07 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-28 18:24 ` Christopher Friesen [this message]
2006-03-01 10:45 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-01 17:04 ` Roland Dreier
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