Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jan 2015 23:39:54 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] add support for new persistent memory instructions |
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 02:50:07PM -0700, Ross Zwisler wrote: > We can use MFENCE, but I don't think we need to. With SFENCE we will > be ordered with respect to stores, and the flushes and pcommit will be > ordered with respect to one another. I think you can sprinkle in loads > anywhere you want in that flow and everything will work.
Ok, maybe we should hold down that sequence and this somewhere as a this-is-how-you-should-do-pcommit-properly explanation or so... or do you have an actual patch adding write_and_commit_buffer()?
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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