From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Felix Rubinstein <felixru@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /dev/mem implementation
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:22:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbqj4ss3.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100117094043.0483ee1a@infradead.org> (Arjan van de Ven's message of "Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:40:43 -0800")
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> writes:
>
> If you feel that you have a valid use case where you really want do
> muck with such memory, it might be a good idea to explain that
> usecase....
To add to it this only applies to uncacheable pages which don't use
MTRRs. Unless in some special situations (e.g. a lot of GPU 3d data
active) that situation tends to be rare and not apply to most memory.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-18 10:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-17 16:47 Felix Rubinstein
2010-01-17 17:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-18 10:22 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-01-18 12:18 ` Felix Rubinstein
2010-01-18 15:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
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