From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] "big hammer" for DAX msync/fsync correctness
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 16:51:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <563D4B2F.9010608@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4iptRuGb0O13+LN0Qv7XUDdJYG6TCJNOVMASDTLw90gtw@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/06/15 15:17, Dan Williams wrote:
>>
>> Is it really required to do that on all cpus?
>
> I believe it is, but I'll double check.
>
It's required on all CPUs on which the DAX memory may have been dirtied.
This is similar to the way we flush TLBs.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-07 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-28 22:09 [PATCH 0/2] "big hammer" for DAX msync/fsync correctness Ross Zwisler
2015-10-28 22:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] pmem: add wb_cache_pmem() to the PMEM API Ross Zwisler
2015-10-28 22:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] pmem: Add simple and slow fsync/msync support Ross Zwisler
2015-10-28 23:02 ` Dan Williams
2015-10-28 22:24 ` [PATCH 0/2] "big hammer" for DAX msync/fsync correctness Jeff Moyer
2015-10-28 22:49 ` Dan Williams
2015-10-28 22:51 ` Ross Zwisler
2015-11-05 23:59 ` Dan Williams
2015-11-06 8:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-06 16:04 ` Dan Williams
2015-11-06 17:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-06 23:17 ` Dan Williams
2015-11-07 0:51 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2015-11-07 6:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-07 8:12 ` Dan Williams
2015-11-07 8:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-07 9:02 ` Dan Williams
2015-11-07 9:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-06 20:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
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