[PATCH] usb: ehci: fix update qtd->token in qh_append_tds
Ming Lei
ming.lei at canonical.com
Tue Aug 30 10:02:35 EDT 2011
Hi Alan,
Thanks for your comment.
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Nevertheless, it remains true that you want to add a memory barrier
> instruction simply in order to speed up a cache writeback, not to force
> any sort of ordering. This needs to be explained carefully in the code
> (not just in the patch description!) and it needs to be done in a way
> that won't affect other architectures.
OK, will do it.
> Also, as you mentioned before, you may want to do the same thing in
> qh_link_async() just after the
>
> head->hw->hw_next = dma;
>
> line. Delays in flushing that write would also slow down performance.
Will do it too.
thanks,
--
Ming Lei
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