linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] irqchip/gicv3-its: Enable cacheable attribute Read-allocate hints

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Message-ID: <57C54705.4070209@arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:42:45 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
To:     shankerd@...eaurora.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Vikram Sethi <vikrams@...eaurora.org>,
        Philip Elcan <pelcan@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irqchip/gicv3-its: Enable cacheable attribute
 Read-allocate hints

On 29/08/16 16:35, Shanker Donthineni wrote:
> Marc,
> 
> Are you planning to push this change? I talked to Qualcomm ITS hw team 
> and they told me nice to have this change even though we see a small gain.

Hi Shanker,

As I asked before, I'd like to know what is the actual gain on real HW,
and how you measured it, so that I can try and make sure this doesn't
introduce regressions on other implementations. If it does, then we'll
probably have to quirk it.

Thanks,

	M.
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