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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: akepner@sgi.com
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	gnb@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use mmiowb in tg3.c
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:07:24 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098410843.6028.45.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0410211826480.392-100000@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 11:33, akepner@sgi.com wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > ... 
> > Typically, our normal "light" write barrier doesn't reorder between cacheable
> > and non-cacheable (MMIO) stores, which is why we had to put some heavy sync
> > barrier in our MMIO writes macros.
> > ...
> 
> Do you mean "impose order" rather than "reorder" here? 

Right.

Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-22  2:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200410211613.19601.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
2004-10-21 23:28 ` [PATCH] use mmiowb in tg3.c Jesse Barnes
2004-10-21 23:40   ` David S. Miller
2004-10-22  1:16     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-22  1:33       ` akepner
2004-10-22  2:07         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-10-22  3:01     ` Jesse Barnes
2004-10-22  4:00       ` Paul Mackerras
2004-10-22 20:51   ` [PATCH] use mmiowb in tg3_poll akepner
2005-05-28 23:12     ` Lennert Buytenhek
2005-05-30 16:30       ` Arthur Kepner
2005-05-31 12:53         ` jamal
2005-05-31 16:45           ` Jesse Barnes

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