Re: Prefetches in memcpy

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On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 16:13, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> Assuming we had a version that prefetched exactly to the end
> of the source memory block and no further, why would we need
> the second variant?

memcpy_to/from_io needs to do strictly ordered fetches on some devices
which fake a memory range with a fifo for performance (pci bursting
dirty tricks)



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