Re: [PATCH] Define flush_wc, a way to flush write combining storebuffers

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 15:21 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:

> I think doing it privately is the better solution because I don't think you 
> have established it has an universal semantic that works
> on all X86-64 systems.

No, I quoted chapter and verse of the relevant Intel and AMD x86_64 docs
for you, complete with URLs and page numbers so it wouldn't take any
effort to verify what I was asserting.

I don't know what else I could have done (it was enough for bcrl, at
least), and you have come up any with suggestions as to what *would*
satisfy you, so I'm stuck.

> And we don't have a portable way to do WC anyways, so there is 
> no portable way to use it.
> 
> So just put an ifdef in.

That's fine.  Whatever satisfies reviewers :-)

	<b

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