Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI/MSIX termination driver

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Monday 20 April 2015 11:49:37 Feng Kan wrote:
> >
> > Obviously they appear on the PCI host bridge in order, because that
> > is a how PCI works. My question was about what happens then. On a lot
> > of SoCs, there is something like an AXI bus that uses posted
> > transactions between PCI and RAM, so you have a do a full manual
> > syncronization of ongoing PIC DMAs when the MSI catcher signals the
> > top-level interrupt. Do you have a bus between PCI and RAM that does
> > not require this, or does the MSI catcher have logic to flush all DMAs?
> 
> Our hardware has an automatic mechanism to flush the content to DRAM before the
> MSI write is committed.

Ok, excellent!

	Arnd
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