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From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:36:01 -0700

> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
> 
> There are some switches that will do write combining when they see two
> sequential regions written. In order to avoid any possible write combining
> issues it is necessary to add a flush after writing each piece of a rar
> register.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

Applied.