Re: [PATCH] Define flush_wc, a way to flush write combining store buffers

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 08:38 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> I think people already don't undersatnd the existing gazillion of
> barriers we have with quite unclear semantics in some cases, it's not
> time to add a new one ...

What do you suggest I do, then?  This makes a substantial difference to
performance for us.  Should I confine this somehow to the ipath driver
directory and have a nest of ifdefs in an include file there?

	<b

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