Re: Ordering between PCI config space writes and MMIO reads?

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Tue Oct 24 2006 - 17:30:31 EST


> 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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