From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Kazutomo Yoshii <kazutomo.yoshii@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bg-linux@lists.anl-external.org
Subject: Re: [bg-linux] [PATCH 5/7] [RFC] force 32-byte aligned kmallocs
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 12:13:30 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305857610.7481.124.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305857301.7481.121.camel@pasglop>
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 12:08 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 20:32 -0500, Kazutomo Yoshii wrote:
> >
> > Actually DMA sends invalidate requests to the snoop unit(L2 level).
> > BGP SoC is a bit different from other 4xx base.
>
> Well, some other 44x also have a snooping L2 (more or less), but L1 is
> usually the problem.
Hrm... looking at the doco you pointed me to, it looks like the L1 -is-
coherent, it gets snoop kills from the L2.
Ok so we do need to make this non-coherent cache stuff a runtime option
(well, we need that for 440+476 too anyways so may as well do it now).
As for the alignment of kmalloc, it looks like a hack that should be
done in the torus code itself.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-20 2:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-18 21:24 [PATCH 1/7] [RFC] Mainline BG/P platform support Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-18 21:24 ` [PATCH 2/7] [RFC] add bluegene entry to cputable Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20 0:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-20 1:08 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20 1:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-18 21:24 ` [PATCH 3/7] [RFC] add support for BlueGene/P FPU Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-19 5:58 ` Michael Neuling
2011-05-19 13:53 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-19 15:22 ` [bg-linux] " Kazutomo Yoshii
2011-05-19 21:36 ` Michael Neuling
2011-05-19 21:55 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-19 23:16 ` Michael Neuling
2011-05-20 0:30 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20 0:43 ` Michael Neuling
2011-05-20 0:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-20 0:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-19 21:41 ` [PATCH 3/7] [RFC][V2] add support for BlueGene/P Double FPU Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-18 21:24 ` [PATCH 4/7] [RFC] enable L1_WRITETHROUGH mode for BG/P Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-19 10:43 ` Josh Boyer
2011-05-19 12:53 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-19 21:42 ` [PATCH 4/7] [RFC][V2] enable BGP_L1_WRITETHROUGH " Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20 1:01 ` [PATCH 4/7] [RFC] enable L1_WRITETHROUGH " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-18 21:24 ` [PATCH 5/7] [RFC] force 32-byte aligned kmallocs Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20 0:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-20 0:47 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20 1:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-20 1:32 ` [bg-linux] " Kazutomo Yoshii
2011-05-20 2:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-20 2:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2011-05-20 3:02 ` Kazutomo Yoshii
2011-05-20 3:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-18 21:24 ` [PATCH 6/7] [RFC] enable early TLBs for BG/P Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20 0:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-20 1:21 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20 1:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-20 3:38 ` [bg-linux] " Kazutomo Yoshii
2011-05-20 3:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-20 13:01 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20 22:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-18 21:24 ` [PATCH 7/7] [RFC] SMP support code Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20 1:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-19 11:01 ` [PATCH 1/7] [RFC] Mainline BG/P platform support Josh Boyer
2011-05-19 12:35 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
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