Re: [BUG] long freezes on thinkpad t60

[Davide Libenzi]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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.
> 
> That optimization manual was confused. 
> 
> The Intel memory ordering documentation *clearly* states that only reads 
> pass writes, not the other way around.

Yes, they were stating that clearly. IIWNOC (If I Were Not On Crack) I 
remember them saying to not assume any ordering besides the data 
dependency and the CPU self-consistency in the future CPUs, and to use 
*fence instructions when certain semantics were required.
But google did not help me in finding that doc, so maybe I were really on 
crack :)



- Davide


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