From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] I/O space write barrier
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 19:33:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410041933.25522.jbarnes@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096936344.2674.198.camel@cube>
On Monday, October 04, 2004 5:32 pm, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Ideally, it would be eieio, and the eieio in each
> of the IO operations would be removed. Finding and
> fixing all the drivers that break looks impossible
> though; most driver developers will be on x86 boxes.
Well, I won't pretend to understand how the PPC ordering rules work, so I'll
defer to benh on that one.
> In that case: wmmiob
>
> (or something longer, like mmio_write_fence maybe)
>
> As a name, "wmb" sucks almost as much as "cli" and "sti" do.
> It dates back to the Alpha port, where it's an opcode.
The other option I briefly considered was wwjd(), but I don't think He has an
official position on posted write ordering.
Jesse
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-05 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-04 20:39 Albert Cahalan
2004-10-04 21:20 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-10-05 0:32 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-10-05 1:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-05 2:26 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-10-05 3:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-05 15:33 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-10-05 22:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-05 23:09 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-10-05 23:57 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-06 1:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-05 2:33 ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-21 23:13 Jesse Barnes
2004-10-22 1:01 ` Grant Grundler
2004-10-22 3:05 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-10-22 4:26 ` Greg Banks
2004-10-22 15:26 ` Grant Grundler
2004-10-05 22:38 Jesse Barnes
2004-09-27 18:03 Jesse Barnes
2004-09-29 10:36 ` Greg Banks
2004-09-29 20:35 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-29 20:43 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-09-29 20:50 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-30 2:23 ` Greg Banks
2004-09-29 22:55 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-09-30 7:15 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-09-30 21:21 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2004-10-16 0:38 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-10-16 3:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-16 3:31 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-09-22 15:45 Jesse Barnes
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