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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:53:02 +0000
Subject: Re: Ordering between PCI config space writes and MMIO reads?
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In-Reply-To: <20061031195312.GD5950@mellanox.co.il> (Michael S. Tsirkin's message of "Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:53:12 +0200")
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, matthew@wil.cx, openib-general@openib.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

 > Here's what I don't understand: according to PCI rules, pci config read
 > can bypass pci config write (both are non-posted).
 > So why does doing it help flush the writes as the comment claims?

No, I don't believe a read of a config register can pass a write of
the same register.  (Someone correct me if I'm wrong)

 - R.