Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] AMSO1100 Low Level Driver.

["Steve Wise" <swise@opengridcomputing.com>]

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 15:48 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > > +	/* Tell HW to xmit */
> > > > +	__raw_writeq(cpu_to_be64(mapaddr), elem->hw_desc + C2_TXP_ADDR);
> > > > +	__raw_writew(cpu_to_be16(maplen), elem->hw_desc + C2_TXP_LEN);
> > > > +	__raw_writew(cpu_to_be16(TXP_HTXD_READY), elem->hw_desc + C2_TXP_FLAGS);
> > > 
> > > or here
> > > 
> > 
> > No need here.  This logic submits the packet for transmission.  We don't
> > assume it is transmitted until we (after a completion interrupt usually)
> > read back the HTXD entry and see the TXP_HTXD_DONE bit set (see
> > c2_tx_interrupt()). 
> 
> ... but will that interrupt happen at all if these 3 writes never hit
> the hardware?
> 

I thought the posted write WILL eventually get to adapter memory.  Not
stall forever cached in a bridge.  I'm wrong?

My point is for a given HTXD entry, we write it to post a packet for
transmission, then only free the packet memory and reuse this entry
_after_ reading the HTXD and seeing the DONE bit set.  So I still don't
see a problem.  But I've been wrong before ;-)

Steve.