Alan Cox wrote: > Some of the Intel CPU's are very bad at lock handling so it is an issue. > Also most PCI config accesses nowdays go to onboard devices whose > behaviour may well be quite different to PCI anyway. PCI has become a > device management API. Does this following patch address your issues with this patch, Alan? It still doesn't address Greg's issue about making this apply to the pci_bus_* functions as well, but I'm not sure of a good way to do that due to the reasons given earlier. -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center