linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] long freezes on thinkpad t60

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706271545490.3879@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:30:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, chris@...ee.ca,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	tglx@...utronix.de, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] long freezes on thinkpad t60

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > IOW shouldn't an mfence always be there? Not only loads could leak up 
> > into the wait phase, but stores too, if they have no dependency with the 
> > "head" and "tail" loads.
> 
> Stores never "leak up". They only ever leak down (ie past subsequent loads 
> or stores), so you don't need to worry about them. That's actually already 
> documented (although not in those terms), and if it wasn't true, then we 
> couldn't do the spin unlock with just a regular store anyway.

Yes, Intel has never done that. They'll probably never do it since it'll 
break a lot of system software (unless they use a new mode-bit that 
allows system software to enable lose-ordering). Although I clearly 
remember to have read in one of their P4 optimization manuals to not 
assume this in the future.



- Davide


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