Re: [RFC] AGP initial support for chipset flushing..

[Keith Packard]

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 12:47 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:

> In this case, we're performing basically a dma_sync*(...DMA_TO_DEVICE) 
> right?

But this is just for the GPU; every other DMA device in the system is
cache-coherent.

>   Can we be sure that a single flush is sufficient?  Is there any 
> window between when we flush and when we start accessing memory with 
> the device that we could get into more caching trouble?

An uncached write to this page will not complete until the buffers are
completely flushed.

> Looks reasonable, I'm not sure we can do much better.  The only concern 
> I have is that allocating some more PCI space like that may end up 
> clobbering some *other* hidden BIOS mapping, but there's not a whole 
> lot we can do about that.

This isn't a hidden mapping; the i965 doesn't allocate space for it in
the BIOS.

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