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* [PATCH 0 of 3] 32-bit MMIO copy routine
@ 2006-01-06 20:26 Bryan O'Sullivan
  2006-01-06 20:26 ` [PATCH 1 of 3] Introduce __raw_memcpy_toio32 Bryan O'Sullivan
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From: Bryan O'Sullivan @ 2006-01-06 20:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Following some discussion with Roland, and patterned after the style
anointed by Linus last week, here is a new version of the 32-bit MMIO
copy routine needed by our InfiniPath device.

The name of the routine has changed from memcpy_toio32 to
__raw_memcpy_toio32.  This reflects the basic nature of the routine;
it dodes not guarantee the order in which writes are performed, nor does
it perform a memory barrier after it is done.

The reason for this is that our chip treats the first and last writes
to some MMIO regions specially; our driver performs those directly using
writel, and uses __raw_memcpy_toio32 for the bits in between.

Regarding the specialised x86_64 implementation, Andi Kleen asked me
to perform some measurements of its performance impact.  It makes a
difference of about 5% in performance on moderately large copies over
the HyperTransport bus, compared to the generic implementation.

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2006-01-06 20:26 [PATCH 0 of 3] 32-bit MMIO copy routine Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-06 20:26 ` [PATCH 1 of 3] Introduce __raw_memcpy_toio32 Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-10  9:18   ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-10 14:55     ` Roland Dreier
2006-01-10 16:07       ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-10 16:56         ` [PATCH] [RFC] Generic 32-bit MMIO copy, out of line Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-10 17:07         ` [PATCH 1 of 3] Introduce __raw_memcpy_toio32 Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-10 17:13           ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-10 17:49           ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-10 17:51             ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-10 17:55               ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-10 22:05                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-10 22:29                   ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-10 23:32                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-11 17:20                       ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-11 17:22                         ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-01-11 17:30                           ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-11 17:43                             ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-11 18:49                               ` Roland Dreier
2006-01-11 18:57                                 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-11 19:01                                   ` Roland Dreier
2006-01-11 19:08                                     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-13 15:19                       ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-10 18:02               ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-10 20:04         ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-01-10 15:59     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-06 20:26 ` [PATCH 2 of 3] memcpy32 for x86_64 Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-06 20:26 ` [PATCH 3 of 3] Add __raw_memcpy_toio32 to each arch Bryan O'Sullivan

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