Re: Opinion on ordering of writel vs. stores to RAM

• To: David Miller <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Opinion on ordering of writel vs. stores to RAM
• From: Roland Dreier <[email protected]>
• Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:54:44 -0700
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    David> It's silly because if you just use different interface
    David> names for the different semantics, the caller can ask for
    David> what he wants at the call site and no conditionals are
    David> needed in the implementation.

OTOH that leads to a combinatorial explosion of 8/16/32/64 access
sizes, write combining or not, strongly ordered wrt local memory or
not, relaxed PCI ordering or not, etc. etc.

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