Subject: Re: [PATCH 39 of 39] IB/ipath - use streaming copy in RDMA interrupt handler to reduce packet loss

From: Bryan O'Sullivan <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:59:37 -0700

On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 14:50 -0700, David Miller wrote:

> A facility like this doesn't belong in some arbitrary driver layer.
> It belongs as a generic facility the whole kernel could make use
> of.

It could, indeed.  In fact, we had that discussion here before I sent
this patch in.  It presumably wants to live in lib/, and acquire a more
generic name.  What name will capture the uncached-read-but-cached-write
semantics in a useful fashion?  memcpy_nc?

	<b