On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:40:06 +0100, Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> Since we drop dev->struct_mutex when going through the slowpath, the
> object might have been moved out of the cpu domain. Hence we need to
> clflush the entire object to ensure that after the ioctl returns,
> everything is coherent again (interwoven writes are ill-defined
> anyway).
> 
> But we only need to do this if we start in the cpu domain and the
> object requires flushing for coherency. So don't do the flushing if
> the object is coherent anyway or if we've done in-line clfushing
> already.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>

Technically true, but we do we care enough to add the extra line of
confusion? Not sold on this one yet, maybe it will be neater in future?
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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