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From: Eli Cohen <eli@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/17] mlx4: Add blue flame support for kernel consumers
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 23:48:12 +0200
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On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 01:40:01PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Eli Cohen <eli@dev.mellanox.co.il>
> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 23:36:48 +0200
> 
> > Specifically, some archs may not support write combining.
> 
> They should just create a non-write-combining mapping if they
> don't support it.
> 

I wouldn't expect that since the caller function could be mislead to
believe it has a write combining capable area.