Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:27:36 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/memcpy: Introduce memcpy_mcsafe_fast |
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:23 PM Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote: > > I think they do. If the result of the wrong data has already > been sent out the network before you process the signal, then you > will need far smarter application software than has ever been written > to hunt it down and stop the spread of the bogus result.
Bah. That's a completely red herring argument.
By "asynchronous" I don't mean "hours later".
Make it be "interrupts are enabled, before serializing instruction".
Yes, we want bounded error handling latency. But that doesn't mean "synchronous"
Linus
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