[openib-general] basic IB doubt

[mlakshmanan at silverstorm.com]

Date sent:      	Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:55:55 -0700
From:           	"Greg Lindahl" <greg.lindahl at qlogic.com>

> For example, on an architecture where you need to do work such as
> flushing the cache before accessing DMAed data, that's done in the
> completion. x86 in general is not such an architecture, but they
> exist. IB is intended to be portable to any CPU architecture.
> 

I presume you meant invalidate the cache, not flush it, before accessing DMA'ed 
data. 

-madhu
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