Re: [PATCH] Define flush_wc, a way to flush write combining storebuffers

From: Bryan O'Sullivan
Date: Wed Mar 08 2006 - 16:40:34 EST


On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 08:38 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> I think people already don't undersatnd the existing gazillion of
> barriers we have with quite unclear semantics in some cases, it's not
> time to add a new one ...

What do you suggest I do, then? This makes a substantial difference to
performance for us. Should I confine this somehow to the ipath driver
directory and have a nest of ifdefs in an include file there?

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