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From: akepner@sgi.com
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>,
Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 v3] dma: document dma_{un}map_{single|sg}_attrs() interface
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:13:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080305181307.GR17802@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204310276.4003.48.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:37:56PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> ....
> To be honest, I still don't like the name. SYNC_ON_WRITE is the SN2
> implementation. What it's actually doing is implementing strict
> ordering semantics. I think it should really be
> DMA_ATTR_STRICT_ORDERING (with a corresponding
> DMA_ATTR_RELAXED_ORDERING)....
I've been thinking about a new name, but don't like
DMA_ATTR_STRICT_ORDERING.
What I'm trying to do is to establish order (across
a NUMA fabric) of DMA to different memory regions, i.e.,
DMA to memory region A forces all outstanding DMA (to
memory regions B, C,....) to complete first.
DMA_ATTR_STRICT_ORDERING sounds like a PCI thing to me,
and this is a NUMA interconnect thing.
--
Arthur
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-05 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-28 3:24 akepner
2008-02-29 2:45 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-02-29 18:25 ` Grant Grundler
2008-02-29 18:37 ` James Bottomley
2008-03-01 2:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-03-01 3:11 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-03-01 7:18 ` Grant Grundler
2008-03-05 18:13 ` akepner [this message]
2008-03-05 19:02 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-03-06 6:01 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-03-12 1:19 ` akepner
2008-03-14 4:13 ` Grant Grundler
2008-03-14 4:30 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-03-14 5:21 ` Grant Grundler
2008-03-14 16:40 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-03-18 1:08 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-03-20 0:32 ` akepner
2008-02-29 21:23 ` akepner
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