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| From | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, pat: Add comments to cachemode translation tables |
| Date | 2015-08-02 12:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <pSYnn-Jb-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <pPpFw-RC-37@gated-at.bofh.it> <pPq8y-1pC-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <pPqBB-2df-43@gated-at.bofh.it> <pPqLg-2oy-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <pPqUV-2A7-5@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015, Toshi Kani wrote: > On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 09:36 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: > > > > > > > > On 23.07.15 at 17:25, <toshi.kani@hp.com> wrote: > > > Yes, I agree with you. But such risk is very low -- 1) the regular > > > case > > > (no fallback) is used most of the cases, 2) the code using WT knows > > > what > > > type of memory it is dealing with. For example, pmem may map NVDIMM > > > with > > > WT, and any sane BIOS sets MTRR to WB for NVDIMM. > > > > Do the words "sane" and "BIOS" really fit together in your opinion? > > :-) > > Anyway, I am not disagreeing with you... When UC is ready for both regular > memory and IO memory, it should be changed to fall back to UC. What's the resolution of this discussion? Is that patch correct as is or do we get an updated version? Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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[PATCH] x86, pat: Add comments to cachemode translation tables Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> - 2015-07-22 20:10 +0200
Re: [PATCH] x86, pat: Add comments to cachemode translation tables "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> - 2015-07-23 08:50 +0200
Re: [PATCH] x86, pat: Add comments to cachemode translation tables Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-08-02 12:10 +0200
Re: [PATCH] x86, pat: Add comments to cachemode translation tables Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> - 2015-08-03 17:10 +0200
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