linux-kernel - Re: question regarding cacheline size

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Date:	Thu, 7 Sep 2006 06:40:26 -0600
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: question regarding cacheline size

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:33:25PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > 
> > So I think we should redo the PCI subsystem to set cacheline size during
> > the buswalk rather than waiting for drivers to ask for it to be set.
> 
> ... while allowing for quirks for devices that go puke when this
> register gets written ;)
> 
> (afaik there are a few)

So you want:

	unsigned int no_cls:1;	/* Device pukes on write to Cacheline Size */

in struct pci_dev?
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