Re: [PATCH v2] loongarch/mm: disable WUC for pgprot_writecombine as same as ioremap_wc

From: Sui Jingfeng
Date: Wed Dec 18 2024 - 21:54:26 EST



On 2024/12/18 20:43, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
For the fact of drm/ast's dramatical drop, it's because write to the
framebuffer can no longer be reordered.


No, your understanding is wrong, very very wrong and a big wrong.

It's not because it can't reorder the write. Rather, it's because
that the CPU can't do write gathering and can't do burst write any
more.

So do you still think your patch is harmless?


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Best regards,
Sui