From: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com>, John Partridge <johnip@sgi.com>,
Linux Network Development list <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] I/O space write barrier
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:23:43 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096511023.3620.3314.camel@hole.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040929135029.38444afd.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 06:50, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:43:55 -0700
> Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>
> > The patch that actually implements mmiowb() already does this, I think Greg
> > just used his patch for testing.
Yes, that hunk will be unnecessary when Jesse's patch goes in.
> The proper way to do it of course is to
> > just use mmiowb() where needed in tg3 after the write barrier patch gets in.
>
> Perfect, please send me a tg3 patch once the mmiowb() bits
> go into the tree.
Will do.
Greg.
--
Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.
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2004-09-29 10:36 ` [PATCH] I/O space write barrier 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 [this message]
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