From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch>
Date: 31 Jan 2000 11:02:28 +0100
The place where this is a real problem is in drivers where data is
shared between the adapter and the host CPU, for instance the
53c7xx driver. On the m68k we currently use a
kernel_set_cachemode() function to change the caching of the page
allocated for the shared structures, but thats a pretty non
portable way of doing it. I would like to see something a
get_free_cachecoherent_page() interface instead, what do you think
of that?
Sounds like pci_alloc_consistent()
Go read the document and check out the interfaces, I believe
you'll be pleasantly surprised :-)
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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