From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>,
Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86/hvm: add support for pcommit instruction"
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 11:31:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160606103103.GU14588@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5755567702000078000F1E51@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 02:54:47AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 06.06.16 at 07:56, <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> wrote:
> > This reverts commit cfacce340608be5f94ce0c8f424487b63c3d5399.
> >
> > Platforms supporting Intel NVDIMM are now required to provide
> > persistency once pmem stores are accepted by the memory subsystem.
> > This is usually achieved by a platform-level feature known as ADR
> > (Asynchronous DRAM Refresh) that flushes any memory subsystem write
> > pending queues on power loss/shutdown. Therefore, the pcommit
> > instruction, which has not yet shipped on any product (and will not),
> > is no longer needed and is deprecated.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
>
> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>
> Wei - certainly something to consider for 4.7.
>
Sure. No point in shipping feature that won't show up in hardware.
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
But please wait a bit before committing while we try to sort out RC5 and
branching etc.
Wei.
> Jan
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-06 5:56 [PATCH] Revert "x86/hvm: add support for pcommit instruction" Haozhong Zhang
2016-06-06 8:54 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-06 10:31 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-06-06 10:37 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-07 0:55 ` Tian, Kevin
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