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Date:	Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:48:08 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
CC:	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: issue with patch "x86: no CPA on iounmap"

Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> This is wrt to x86 git commit f56d005d30342a45d8af2b75ecccc82200f09600
> 	"x86: no CPA on iounmap"
> 
> This can use performance issue. When a GART driver unmaps a RAM page,

thinking about this some more...

afaik the gart driver doesn't use ioremap....

(and it does caching control explicitly, and sets its pages back to cached)

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