Re: [git head] Should X86_PAT really default to yes?

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Mon May 05 2008 - 13:49:38 EST


On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Pallipadi, Venkatesh
<venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Frans Pop [mailto:elendil@xxxxxxxxx]
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> >Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 9:55 AM
> >To: Yinghai Lu
> >Cc: Barnes, Jesse; Pallipadi, Venkatesh;
> >linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Ingo Molnar; Packard, Keith
> >Subject: Re: [git head] Should X86_PAT really default to yes?
> >
>
> >On Sunday 04 May 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >> can you boot with pat=off and send out /proc/mtrr?
> >
> >Hmmm. Is 'pat=off' supposed to do anything?
> >
>
> The option for this is actually "nopat".
>
or the PAT has something wrong with WB in MTRR?

YH
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