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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:24:23 +0100 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com> Cc: linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, openib-general@...nib.org, John Partridge <johnip@....com> Subject: Re: Ordering between PCI config space writes and MMIO reads? Ar Maw, 2006-10-24 am 12:13 -0700, ysgrifennodd Roland Dreier: > 1) Is this something that should be fixed in the driver? The PCI > spec allows MMIO cycles to start before an earlier config cycle > completed, but do we want to expose this fact to drivers? Would > it be better for ia64 to use some sort of barrier to make sure > pci_write_config_xxx() is strongly ordered with MMIO? It is good to be conservative in this area. Some AMD chipsets at least had ordering problems with some configurations in the K7 era. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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