Re: [PATCH 0/4] allow drivers to flush in-flight DMA v2

2007-10-03 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Tuesday, October 2, 2007 6:04 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:43:39PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > > > My only beef with this patch set is that it seems > > a bit much to create a totally new function name every > > time we want to set some kind of new attribute o

Re: [PATCH 0/4] allow drivers to flush in-flight DMA v2

2007-10-02 Thread akepner
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:43:39PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > My only beef with this patch set is that it seems > a bit much to create a totally new function name every > time we want to set some kind of new attribute on some > DMA object. Why not add a "dma_set_flags()" or similar > that

Re: [PATCH 0/4] allow drivers to flush in-flight DMA v2

2007-09-28 Thread David Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:09:26 -0700 > > On Altix, DMA may be reordered between a device and host memory. > This reordering can happen in the NUMA interconnect, and it usually > results in correct operation and improved performance. In some > situations it may be neces