Re: [PATCH 2/2] libata: disable preemption during PIO copy

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* FUJITA Tomonori | 2010-03-23 20:51:34 [+0900]:

>> How so? You have to remain on the same CPU on which you started the copy
>> process. Once you get to flush_dcache_page() you may have allready
>> switched the CPU.
>
>Oops, I thought that you trying to address on the deferred
>flush_dcache_page() issue. I don't know enough about how this pio code
>works, but if your description is correct, then the patch is fine, I
>guess.

No, it is not. The dcache flush is a global one so a CPU switch does not
matter. So I NAK that one myself.

Sebastian
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