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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:27:36 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/memcpy: Introduce memcpy_mcsafe_fast
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:23 PM Luck, Tony <tony.luck@...el.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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