[RFC] consistent_sync and non L1 cache line aligned buffers

[Eugene Surovegin]

At 09:17 AM 7/15/2003, Matt Porter wrote:
>I'll agree that it's a better hack, but since the offending areas in
>the SCSI subsystem are easily located, it seems wiser to fix upstream.

Matt, the problem is it wasn't that *easy* to locate this, at least for me :)
I'm not sure that this is the only place..

>We still need someone with interest AND time to properly fix the
>consistent alloc from irq issue. :)  All of the patches post to date
>are incomplete bandaids.

Uhh, I switched to solution which uses pre allocated consistent memory (10
pages are enough for sym53c8xx_2).
It's still not a generic solution, but at least it's safe :)

Eugene


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