Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:21:40 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH, 2/4] readX_check() performance evaluation |
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Andi Kleen wrote: > > I have no idea how to do such an synchronization on i386/x86-64. E.g. Opteron > chipsets would likely support MCEs for bus aborts, but there is no way to > synchronize it for writes.
Doing a status read from the device should do it (just read the config space, for example).
But remember: I suspect there are very _very_ few people who care at that stage.
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