Under the API addition that we've been discussing, the
extra cache flushes and invalidations that these drivers need
would become macros that would be expand to nothing on the
other architectures, and the drivers would no longer have to
have "if (consistent_alloation_failed) ..." branches around them.
Ok, but here is where my big concerns lie.
Specifically, it took years to get most developers confortable with
pci_alloc_consitent() and friends. I totally fear that asking them to
now add cache flushing stuff to their drivers takes the complexity way
over the edge.
Willy, these PCXS/T processors sound like a newer cpu, do you mean to
tell me the caches are totally not coherent with device bus space?
Please elaborate, I want to learn more.
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