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Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mfd: intel-lpss: Try to enable Memory-Write-Invalidate

From Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mfd: intel-lpss: Try to enable Memory-Write-Invalidate
Date 2016-11-17 10:10 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 12:37:04PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Enable MWI mechanism if PCI bus master supports it.
> 
> It might be potential benefit in some cases. Documentation [1] says that
> standard Memory Write might supply more current data than in the CPU modified
> cache line and "trashing a line in the cache may trash some data that is more
> current that in the memory line". This allows to avoid potential retries and
> other performance degradation issues on the bus.
> 
> [1] PCI System Architecture, 4th edition, ISBN: 0-201-30974-2, pp.117-119.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>

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[PATCH v2 1/1] mfd: intel-lpss: Try to enable Memory-Write-Invalidate Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> - 2016-11-15 11:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mfd: intel-lpss: Try to enable  Memory-Write-Invalidate Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> - 2016-11-17 10:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mfd: intel-lpss: Try to enable  Memory-Write-Invalidate Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2016-11-21 14:20 +0100

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