From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20030715092123.02ef0d20@mail.ebshome.net> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:27:10 -0700 To: Matt Porter From: Eugene Surovegin Subject: Re: [RFC] consistent_sync and non L1 cache line aligned buffers Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: <20030715091731.C6208@home.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030714210220.0308a070@mail.zultys.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20030714210220.0308a070@mail.zultys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/