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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org,
	John Partridge <johnip@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Ordering between PCI config space writes and MMIO reads?
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:29:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aday7r5bdx0.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1161725063.22348.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Alan Cox's message of "Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:24:23 +0100")

 > It is good to be conservative in this area. Some AMD chipsets at least
 > had ordering problems with some configurations in the K7 era.

Could you expand a little?  Do you mean that the arch implementation
of pci_write_config_xxx() should have extra barriers, or that drivers
should do belt-and-suspenders flushes to make sure config writes are
really done properly?

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-24 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-24 19:13 Ordering between PCI config space writes and MMIO reads? Roland Dreier
2006-10-24 19:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-24 21:47   ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-24 21:51     ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-24 22:12       ` John Partridge
2006-10-24 22:36       ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-24 22:43         ` David Miller
2006-10-25 14:15           ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-31 19:02             ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-31 19:53               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-10-31 19:53                 ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-31 19:58                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-31 20:28                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-10-31 20:34                 ` Richard B. Johnson
2006-10-31 20:47                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-31 22:30                     ` Roland Dreier
2006-11-01 16:27                       ` John Partridge
2006-11-01 16:46                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-01 17:08                           ` John Partridge
2006-11-01 17:14                             ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-01 23:04                         ` David Miller
2006-11-02  1:08                           ` John Partridge
2006-10-31 20:50                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-10-24 22:59         ` [openib-general] " Jason Gunthorpe
2006-10-25 14:04           ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-24 23:09         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-10-24 23:27         ` Jack Steiner
2006-10-25 14:05           ` Roland Dreier
2006-11-02  3:05           ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-10-24 21:01 ` [openib-general] " JWM
2006-10-24 21:24 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-24 21:29   ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-10-24 21:37     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-25  6:30 ` Grant Grundler
2006-10-25 14:11   ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-25 14:18   ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-25 17:15     ` [openib-general] " Jason Gunthorpe
2006-10-25 18:22     ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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