Re: PCI MMIO flushing and stuff (was Re: 2.2.15 with eepro100: eth0:

From: Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Date: Sun May 21 2000 - 03:31:37 EDT

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    Alan Cox wrote:
    > > What happens when PCI DMA writes to an address which is currently clean
    > > within a CPU cache?
    >
    > It goes dirty

    Are you sure? It should be invalidated shouldn't it?

    (Dirty is: "The contents still need to be written back" and invalid is:
    "this cache line is empty".)

                                            Roger. 

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