[RFC 0/4] Virtio uses DMA API for all devices

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Fri Aug 3 17:06:38 AEST 2018


On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 11:53:08PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > We don't need cache flushing tricks.
> 
> You don't but do real devices on same platform need them?

IBMs power plaforms are always cache coherent.  There are some powerpc
platforms have not cache coherent DMA, but I guess this scheme isn't
intended for them.


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