From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andreas Werner <wernerandy@gmx.de>,
tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
x86@kernel.org, dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] X86: MM: Add PAT Type write-through in combination with mtrr
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:29:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131028102938.GD4314@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131028101749.GA4389@gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:17:49AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> And regular write-back cacheable isn't sufficient because the CPU
> could do things like prefetch your range automatically?
Yeah, he's doing a CLFLUSH anyway which basically makes it a
write-through...
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-28 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-27 12:55 [PATCH] X86: MM: Add PAT Type write-through in combination with mtrr Andreas Werner
2013-10-27 13:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-27 16:51 ` Andreas Werner
2013-10-27 17:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-27 17:56 ` Andreas Werner
2013-10-27 19:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-28 6:29 ` Andreas Werner
2013-10-28 10:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-28 10:29 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-10-28 10:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-28 10:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-28 10:45 ` Andreas Werner
2013-10-28 10:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-28 10:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-28 11:02 ` Andreas Werner
2013-10-28 10:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-28 10:34 ` Andreas Werner
2013-10-28 10:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-28 11:25 ` Andreas Werner
2013-10-28 11:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-28 12:03 ` Andreas Werner
2013-10-28 13:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-28 14:19 ` Andreas Werner
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2013-08-25 7:01 Andreas Werner
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