Jerome Glisse wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 14:02 +0200, Jerome Glisse wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 12:13 +0200, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
>>     
>>> If there was an erratum causing PAT not to be enabled on your processor, 
>>> then definitely that
>>> may have cause strange inconsistencies.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Thomas.
>>>       
>> I think ttm_tt caching stuff does follow kernel policies outlined
>> in Documentation/x86/pat.txt well at least from understanding of
>> code i have right now through (call chains being sometimes hard
>> to fully follow). As also have another issue it seems that calling
>> set_memory_(uc|wc) while suspending lockup the cpu or at least doesn't
>> return, is this somethings i should expect ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jerome
>>
>>     
>
> Speaking about caching i think we should only call
> ttm_tt_set_placement_caching in mmap function as otherwise it's
> useless to waste time changing cache policy,
>   
Jerome,
The current code should never change caching policy when it's not 
strictly needed.
If you hit such a case, it's probably a bug.

Could you illustrate a case where you're seeing this?

/Thomas

> Cheers,
> Jerome
>
>
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