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Date sent: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:55:55 -0700</span></font>
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From: "Greg Lindahl" <greg.lindahl@qlogic.com></span></font>
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> For example, on an architecture where you need to do work such as</span></font>
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> flushing the cache before accessing DMAed data, that's done in the</span></font>
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> completion. x86 in general is not such an architecture, but they</span></font>
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> exist. IB is intended to be portable to any CPU architecture.</span></font>
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I presume you meant invalidate the cache, not flush it, before accessing DMA'ed
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-madhu</span></font>
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