Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:27:24PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> [..] You normally have
> non-cached locations buffered (since you don't always need peripheral
> device accesses to be posted immediately) and can force a writeback with a
> memory barrier. [..]

ev6 works the way you described AFIK (to flush the write buffer you can use
wmb(), note that wmb() semantics doesn't require the cpu to really "flush" but
just to keep writes oredered across other mb or wmb, but it's basically the
same from a software point of you and flushing the write buffer synchronously
obviously provides that semantics).  I didn't followed very closely the
previous part of the thread so I'm not sure what is the issue.

Andrea