Re: [PATCH 0/2] mips: Introduce some IO-accessors optimizations

From: Serge Semin
Date: Wed Sep 30 2020 - 09:23:50 EST


On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:15:32PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:12:32AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> > Thomas,
> > Any comment on the series? The changes aren't that comprehensive, so it would
> > be great to merge it in before the 5.10 merge window is opened.
>
> for the both patches there is no user for it, so I don't see a reason
> to apply it.

@Thomas. I see your point. I'll merge them into my repo with Baikal-T1 CSP/BSP
patches and will deliver all at once when the kernel is ready to accept the
changes (most likely in 3 - 5 months).

@Jiaxun, if you've any hardware which for sure supports the strong UC
ordering, feel free to submit a patchset which activates the proposed here
config together with my STRONG_UC_ORDERING-alteration applied before your
changes.

-Sergey

>
> Thomas.
>
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