[openib-general] Ordering between PCI config space writes and MMIO reads?

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Oct 24 14:29:47 PDT 2006


 > It is good to be conservative in this area. Some AMD chipsets at least
 > had ordering problems with some configurations in the K7 era.

Could you expand a little?  Do you mean that the arch implementation
of pci_write_config_xxx() should have extra barriers, or that drivers
should do belt-and-suspenders flushes to make sure config writes are
really done properly?

 - R.




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