On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 08:47:56AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 03:58 -0400, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > The driver was requesting for a writethrough mapping. But with thoses > > flags we will end up with a SAO mapping because we now have memory > > conherence always enabled. ie, the existing mapping will end up with > > a WIMG value 0b1110 which is Strong Access Order. > > > > Update this to use cache inhibitted guarded mapping > > Why guarded ? If it's performance sensitive (and the driver has > appropriate barriers where needed), you will get write combining > without guarded, you won't with it. This driver uses uncached write combining on x86 Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
