Re: [PATCH] __cacheline_aligned_in_smp?

From: David Gibson (david@gibson.dropbear.id.au)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 04:41:12 EST

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On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 06:24:40PM +1100, Paul 'Rusty' Russell wrote:
> Dave: Anton suggested you might have a justification for
> __cacheline_aligned doing something on UP?

It could matter for DMA buffers on UP machines with non-cache coherent
DMA.

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