From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Phil Sutter <phil.sutter@viprinet.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] af_packet: flush complete kernel cache in packet_sendmsg
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:46:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1314971179.3092.159.camel@deadeye> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1314961686-30870-1-git-send-email-phil.sutter@viprinet.com>
On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 13:08 +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:
> This flushes the cache before and after accessing the mmapped packet
> buffer. It seems like the call to flush_dcache_page from inside
> __packet_get_status is not enough on Kirkwood (or ARM in general).
> ---
> I know this is far from an optimal solution, but it's in fact the only working
> one I found.
[...]
This is ridiculous. If flush_dcache_page() isn't doing everything it
should, you need to fix that.
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-02 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-08 13:06 ARM, AF_PACKET: caching problems on Marvell Kirkwood Phil Sutter
2011-05-05 14:11 ` Phil Sutter
2011-05-05 14:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-06 16:12 ` Phil Sutter
2011-05-05 19:46 ` Andrew Lunn
2011-05-06 16:17 ` Phil Sutter
2011-05-09 8:59 ` Phil Sutter
2011-05-25 10:32 ` Phil Sutter
2011-09-02 11:08 ` [PATCH] af_packet: flush complete kernel cache in packet_sendmsg Phil Sutter
2011-09-02 13:46 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2011-09-02 13:59 ` Phil Sutter
2011-09-02 17:28 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-05 19:57 ` Phil Sutter
2011-09-06 9:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-06 11:05 ` Phil Sutter
[not found] ` <D3F292ADF945FB49B35E96C94C2061B90A239361@nsmail.netscout.com>
2011-09-02 14:00 ` FW: " chetan loke
2011-09-02 15:31 ` Phil Sutter
2011-09-02 16:49 ` chetan loke
2011-09-06 9:44 ` Phil Sutter
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