Re: [linuxsh-dev] Small fix for PCI DMA code.

[David M. <Dav...@st...>]

On Aug 14,  3:26pm, dw...@in... wrote:
> Subject: [linuxsh-dev] Small fix for PCI DMA code.
>
> If we really care about it being faster to flush the whole cache instead of
> looping over a large virtual address range, then the arch-specific cache
> code should make that call, depending on the size of the cache actually
> present on the current CPU, etc. It doesn't belong in the generic
> pci_alloc_consistent(), imo.
>
> OK?

I agree. Calling flush_cache_all() was simply done for expediency, I just never
had the time to do it properly. I think it should be faster doing it this way,
as you don't need to flush the icache.

Yet another thing gone from my TODO list!

Cheers!

-- 
Dave McKay 
Software Engineer STMicroelectronics
Email: dav...@st...