[patch 9/9] powerpc/cell: Add DMA_ATTR_STRONG_ORDERING dma attribute and use in IOMMU code
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Jul 16 12:18:46 EST 2008
> This is all about inbound transfers, i.e. DMAs coming from the I/O bridge
> into the CPU, both DMA read and DMA write.
OK -- at a minimum I think the documentation should make that clear. As
it stands the description of what this does is pretty much impossible to
parse and understand.
> Strong ordering is only active when both the bridge and the IOMMU enable
> it, but for correctly written drivers, this only results in a slowdown.
So when would someone use this dma attribute? As a hack to fix drivers
where the real fix is too complicated?
- R.
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