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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] add support for new persistent memory instructions
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 23:39:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150126223954.GJ1656@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1422309007.14456.1.camel@theros.lm.intel.com>

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.

ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
--

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-26 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-23 20:40 [PATCH v2 0/2] add support for new persistent memory instructions Ross Zwisler
2015-01-23 20:40 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] x86: Add support for the pcommit instruction Ross Zwisler
2015-01-23 20:40 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] x86: Add support for the clwb instruction Ross Zwisler
2015-01-23 23:03 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] add support for new persistent memory instructions H. Peter Anvin
2015-01-24 11:14   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-01-26 19:59     ` Ross Zwisler
2015-01-26 21:34       ` Borislav Petkov
2015-01-26 21:50         ` Ross Zwisler
2015-01-26 22:39           ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-01-26 23:14             ` Ross Zwisler
2015-01-26 19:51   ` Ross Zwisler
2015-01-26 20:05     ` H. Peter Anvin

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