[PATCH 1/5] drm: rename {drm_clflush_sg, drm_clflush_pages}

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Wed Jan 24 01:14:28 PST 2018


Quoting Gurchetan Singh (2018-01-24 02:55:30)
> Since clfush is an x86-only instruction, these function names won't
> make much sense if we start adding cases for other architectures.

Whatever your dislike for the name, it has one clear advantage over the
new one: it tells you what it is flushing.
-Chris



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