On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 10:28:05PM +, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 21:31 +0100, gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > That's a big sign that your patch series needs work. Break it up into
> > smaller pieces, it should be possible, which will make merges easier
> > (well,
On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 21:31 +0100, gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> That's a big sign that your patch series needs work. Break it up into
> smaller pieces, it should be possible, which will make merges easier
> (well, different in a way.)
Hello Greg,
Can you have a look at the attached
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 06:17:03PM +, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 07:48 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 04:56:41PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > > Several RDMA drivers, e.g. drivers/infiniband/hw/qib, use the CPU to
> > > transfer data
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 06:03:15PM +, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 07:46 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 04:56:41PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > > Several RDMA drivers, e.g. drivers/infiniband/hw/qib, use the CPU to
> > > transfer data
On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 07:48 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 04:56:41PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > Several RDMA drivers, e.g. drivers/infiniband/hw/qib, use the CPU to
> > transfer data between memory and PCIe adapter. Because of performance
> > reasons it is
On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 07:46 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 04:56:41PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > Several RDMA drivers, e.g. drivers/infiniband/hw/qib, use the CPU to
> > transfer data between memory and PCIe adapter. Because of performance
> > reasons it is
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 04:56:41PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Several RDMA drivers, e.g. drivers/infiniband/hw/qib, use the CPU to
> transfer data between memory and PCIe adapter. Because of performance
> reasons it is important that the CPU cache is not flushed when such
> drivers transfer
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 04:56:41PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Several RDMA drivers, e.g. drivers/infiniband/hw/qib, use the CPU to
> transfer data between memory and PCIe adapter. Because of performance
> reasons it is important that the CPU cache is not flushed when such
> drivers transfer
Several RDMA drivers, e.g. drivers/infiniband/hw/qib, use the CPU to
transfer data between memory and PCIe adapter. Because of performance
reasons it is important that the CPU cache is not flushed when such
drivers transfer data. Make this possible by allowing these drivers to
override the
