Re: [PATCH 2/4] drm/ttm: introduce dma cache sync helpers

From: Thierry Reding
Date: Fri May 23 2014 - 03:34:28 EST


On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 02:49:40PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Thierry Reding
> <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 04:10:56PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> >> From: Lucas Stach <dev@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> On arches with non-coherent PCI,
> >
> > I guess since this applies to gk20a
> >
> >> we need to flush caches ourselfes at
> >
> > "ourselves". Or perhaps even reword to something like: "..., caches need
> > to be flushed and invalidated explicitly", since dma_sync_for_cpu() does
> > invalidate rather than flush.
>
> Rephrased as "On arches for which access to GPU memory is non-coherent, caches
> need to be flushed and invalidated explicitly at the appropriate places."

Nit: s/arches/architectures/

Thierry

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