From: akepner@sgi.com
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
ggrundstrom@neteffect.com, ewg@lists.openfabrics.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/14] nes: device structures and defines
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:57:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070808165730.GA32445@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adair7qotyf.fsf@cisco.com>
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:46:16AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> ....
> Not mmiowb() -- that is for ordering between CPUs, eg on systems like
> Altix where PCI transactions might get reordered in the system fabric
> before reaching the PCI bus.
>
Yes, that's right. This is a continual source of confusion.
FWIW, Jesse Barnes documented mmiowb() in
Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl
--
Arthur
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-08 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-08 0:45 [PATCH 2/14] nes: device structures and defines ggrundstrom
2007-08-08 1:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-08 12:38 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 11:50 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-08 12:55 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 13:02 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-08 13:08 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 13:28 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-08 13:38 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 13:48 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-08 13:55 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-08 16:18 ` Roland Dreier
2007-08-08 16:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-08 16:30 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-08 16:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-08 16:43 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-08 16:46 ` Roland Dreier
2007-08-08 16:57 ` akepner [this message]
2007-08-08 16:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-08 17:34 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-08 19:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-08 16:39 ` Roland Dreier
2007-08-08 16:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-08 22:04 ` David Miller
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