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Thanks to Kay for keeping us honest.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <[email protected]>
Cc: "Williams, Dan J" <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Add code to connect to the DCA driver and provide cpu tags for use by
drivers that would like to use Direct Cache Access hints.
[Adrian Bunk] Several Kconfig cleanup items
[Andrew Morten, Chris Leech] Fix for using cpu_physical_id() even when
built for uni-processor
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Direct Cache Access (DCA) is a method for warming the CPU cache before data
is used, with the intent of lessening the impact of cache misses. This
patch adds a manager and interface for matching up client requests for DCA
services with devices that offer DCA services.
In order to use DCA, a module must do bus writes with the appropriate tag
bits set to trigger a cache read for a specific CPU. However, different
CPUs and chipsets can require different sets of tag bits, and the methods
for determining the correct bits may be simple hardcoding or may be a
hardware specific magic incantation. This interface is a way for DCA
clients to find the correct tag bits for the targeted CPU without needing
to know the specifics.
[Dave Miller] use DEFINE_SPINLOCK()
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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