[openib-general] [PATCH] use mmiowb after doorbell ring

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] use mmiowb after doorbell ring
> 
>  > > I dunno what's better.  Maybe separate environment variables for
>  > > user-specific configs are just as good -- eg that's what ld.so does.
>  > 
>  > Hmm.
>  > I guess what I'm trying to say is - let's follow some precedent.
>  > ld.so example is good. Are there others?
> 
> I think there are plenty of precedents for putting configuration in
> dotfiles in $HOME.  For example on my system, 'man fonts-conf' shows
> 
> NAME
>        fonts.conf - Font configuration files
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>           /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
>           /etc/fonts/fonts.dtd
>           /etc/fonts/conf.d
>           ~/.fonts.conf
> 
> But I'm sure there are plenty of environment variable uses too.

Sure. But this configuration of a program (x11 font server), not a library, is
that right? So user has a chance to know he's running it and read the man page
to figure which files are read.  It seems for libraries conf files are not
common.

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MST